Hi, Responding to two messages at once. I think there are some technical misconceptions in the messages from Catalyst-Vaibhav Aggarwal. We won't get anywhere if we proceed by believing false things about how the Internet works. On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 03:19:53PM +0530, Catalyst-Vaibhav Aggarwal wrote:
And any such suggestion can easily be implemented with the Automation of the entire Verification process. For Eg. Gmail has a two Step Authentication - One on the Password and the other on the Phone Number of the User.
Actually, no. What Google two-step authentication does is bind a login to both a password and some other communication factor. It does not actually tell you who is at the other end, and can't. There is a serious and important difference for our purposes between authenticating that the same indvidual is undertaking two different actions, and identifying who that individual is when (e.g.) wandering around in the street.
This is a issue regaining the safety of me, my family
Can you say more about how you think registration of domain names in the global DNS could (even a little bit) affect the safety of you or your family? In particular,
or anybody will be willing to compromise. And the Lives being lost and the
could you say some more about how you think anyone's life hangs in the balance due to registration of domain names? Also, On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:28:29PM +0530, Catalyst-Vaibhav Aggarwal wrote:
As far as Security for the Email Addresses is concerned, every email server has a built in SMTP verification mechanism that either can be switched on or Off as per the need may be - Most servers or Service providers don’t switch it on as there is a cost added to their overall Network Management or Infrastructure. BUT Gmail has implemented it. That is why we are able to see Classification of Mails in our mail boxes.
I would appreciate a pointer to the documentation of this SMTP verification mechanism of which you speak. I'm reasonably familiar with the SMTP specifications, and I'm not really sure what feature you're talking about. If you mean the SMTP VRFY verb, I don't think it does what you think it does, and it has been widely regarded as a spam-promoting feature since at least 1999. It is certainly not the basis for Google's classification of your email, which (depending on how you use it) depends on them reading either your headers or your mail bodies to classify it for you. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com