RE: [Asrg] SMTP AUTH

[Bill Cole <asrg2 at billmail.scconsult.com>]

At 9:33 PM -0800 12/7/04, Mark Wilson wrote:
> > > How many people really send mail from public places using someone else's
> > > computer?  Not many that I've seen.
>
> In my travels to Europe and Russia I've discovered the internet cafes are
> HUGELY popular and everyone is sending email from public places using public
> computers.  I would say the amount of people in the world doing that is
> quite large.

Wrong metric. There are a lot of very popular behaviors that should 
be discouraged whenever possible, NOT accommodated and lubricated. A 
sizable fraction of mail users will open any attachment they get, so 
the approach of making the popular act slick brought us mailers that 
auto-open attachments.

Using the Internet from a public access Windows machine that is 
administered with an eye to keeping costs down is unsound, unsafe 
behavior. It might be acceptable if all of those machines were 
managed by a skilled team of professionals and/or were running 
systems designed to shield themselves and their overall user 
population from the recklessness of one user, but that's generally 
not so.

Breaking that sort of behavior in a consistent standard way would be 
a very good thing.


--
Bill Cole
bill at scconsult.com


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