Re: Lazy network operators

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels () cistron nl>]

In article <cistron.407CDBCC.60004 () he iki fi>,
Petri Helenius  <pete () he iki fi> wrote:
> Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> > that's somewhat the opposite of empowerment.  if a "spam solution" can
> > take away that crisis and the expense is that my dsl-connected end host
> > has to tunnel its e-mail to someplace out in <www.vix.com/personalcolo>
> > then that's a tradeoff i can live with.
> >  
> You, sure, how about the people who are not really computer literate and 
> use SMTP AUTH to send their mail from various places? Remember that 
> convinience almost always outweighs security with the general 
> population. If it wouldnŽt, the ICT market would not look like it looks 
> today.

That was solved 6 years ago. You let them use port 587 instead of 25.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2476.html

Mike.