[e2e] latest spate of cruft postings to e2e
Mark Baugher
mbaugher at cisco.com
Fri Nov 14 12:21:23 PST 2003
At 11:36 AM 11/14/2003, David P. Reed wrote:
>At 10:20 AM 11/14/2003, Mark Baugher wrote:
>>Such problems abound. Curbing spam is a middle-to-middle problem and not
>>and end-to-end problem IMHO.
>
>Whitelists are end-to-end approaches. Not my favorite kind, but
>intermediate nodes play no role.
I agree and understand that filtering should not be done in intermediate
nodes according the standard. But whitelists don't work well unless
address forgery can be reliably detected and in my case it was not.
Mark
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