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Re:Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email by striking on Friday May 17, 2024 @02:46PM (#40393037)
I found your link interesting and informative. I'm curious if you have any specific comments on this quote from the story:

> From there, the email services which implement MX2 would publish a public date, on which all messages sent to them by the old MX record, will be automatically sent to Junk. If just Microsoft and Google alone agreed on such a date, that would be 40% of global email traffic.

Do you think this change wouldn't be enough? If so, why not?

Re:Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email by smeehee on Friday May 17, 2024 @03:44PM (#40393552)
MX records don't send messages. Assuming that “sent to them via SMTP” is meant… well, moving all messages to ‘junk’ isn't a good idea: it needs to be restricted to messages sent on or after that time. But why not just respond with “554 No SMTP service here” on opening the connection?
Re:Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email by riffic on Friday May 17, 2024 @02:54PM (#40393116)
all I can say is IPv6 (and to qualify, IPv6 is great everyone should be using it).