[e2e] New approach to diffserv...

[Vernon Schryver]

> From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed at reed.com>


> I keep trying to switch permanently to SMTP-TLS, but it gets blocked by 
> hotel high speed Internet and many dialup POPs (they actively grab all 
> attempts to connect to SMTP servers and route them to their own, whether 
> you like it or not, and their own doesn't do SMTP-TLS).

You should scream to the deskclerk each and every time about your
privacy and how dare they snoop on your mail discussing your medical
condition and bank accounts with the patent attorneys back at the
factory.  Then you should at least check to see if a local modem call
is possible and wouldn't cost too much.  Surely you don't need 500 Kbit/sec
for your mail.

Of course you know all that.  My point is that you must switch
to SMTP-TLS and try to really mean it.


More important, why isn't ISI running SMTP-TLS on this mailing
list?  Major mailing lists doing that would help shift the assumptions
about whether stupid and evil middleboxes are practical.


> The reed.com server runs on a hosting service that refuses to implement SSL 
> as a standard offering.   I'd be happy to switch.  Got any suggestions of 
> hosting services that run a small site for $400/year and offer SSL?   In 
> any case, since no one sends data to the site, and my stuff is public, so 
> far this is not a big issue.   But I'd like to fix it nonetheless.

I can't believe that aren't plenty out there.  However, $400/year is
$33/month.  Many people are paying about not much more than that cable
modem or DSL connections with sufficiently static IP addresses and
running their own HTTP[S] servers.


Vernon Schryver    vjs at rhyolite.com