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... spam(*), has
increased considerably during a short period of time and has become a
serious threat to the Internet email community as a whole. Something
needs to be done fairly quickly.
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... the receivers' areas of interest and the actual mail sent out (at
least if one assumes that not everybody on the Internet is
interested in porno pictures and spam programs...).
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If, however, enough Internet MTAs did implement enough of the rules
described below (especially the Non-Relay rules), we would get the
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... This way, the spam problem could be reduced enough to allow the
Internet community to design and deploy a real and general solution.
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... using existing mail addresses (whether or not that is legal is beyond
the scope of this memo). But, at least the Internet will benefit from
the side effect that this test stops typos and misconfigured UAs.
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... the spam fight (and might even work so far) but that might wreak
havoc on Internet mail and thus may cause more damage than good.
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Internet mail was designed such that the sending host connects
directly to the recipient as described by MX records (there may be
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... reduce the speed with which he sends it out. This is not without
controversy and must be used with extreme care, but it may
protect the rest of the Internet from him.
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... sender name is a real user or an existing alias. This is
basically to protect the rest of the Internet from various "typos"
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... spam raises several security issues
which, in fact, puts the entire Internet mail community at risk:
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... Mail Relay hosts may be blocked too, even though they are also
victims. In the long run, this may cause Internet mail service to
deteriorate.
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... Crocker, D., "Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages", STD 11, RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop) ...
... Braden, R., "Requirements for Internet hosts - application and support", STD 3, RFC 1123std3 ...
... product made by Hormel. Use of the term spam (uncapitalized) in
the Internet community comes from a Monty Python sketch and is
almost Internet folklore. The term spam ...
... the Internet community comes from a Monty Python sketch and is
almost Internet folklore. The term spam is usually pejorative,
however this is not in any way intended to describe the Hormel
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TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
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