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Re: [Asrg] 6. Proposals - Pull System (revisited)



"Chris" <rebel@rebel.com.au> wrote:
> The current system is broken because anyone can inject mail into it with no
> fear of backtracing

  There are more issues at stake than that.

> Pull won't prevent spam, in fact it is more about giving choice to the
> recipient and taking it away from the sender

  A simple "pull" system may be implemented by layering a notification
scheme on top of SMTP.  Once the recipient is notified of a message,
he sends an ACK with other information, and the sender then knows
where to deliver the message.

  Alan DeKok.

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