Re: a few short notes

[Martin Duerst <duerst@xxxxxx>]

At 16:56 04/02/01 +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> Mandatory authentication is also a bad idea IMO. Obviously authentication 
> is very important and must be supported so that people who only want to 
> receive mail from verifyable sources get to implement this policy, but 
> that doesn't mean that we should force *everyone* to use such a policy.

I tend to disagree. *I* don't want you to receive a message that is faked
and pretends to come from me, but doesn't. Even if you don't care, I do.
I would strongly prefer a system that would not allow this. And my gut
feeling is that most users would be with me on this.

Regards,   Martin.