[Cryptography] SUBMIT is not SMTP, was IAB Statement on Internet Confidentiality

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

> This is the cryptography list.  I think we can have naive discussion of 
> email protocols and infrastructure somewhere else.

OK, I'll try and drag it back to cryptography, so...

>  *  While this could have been nefarious, it is far more likely an
>     anti-spam measure.  Of course opinions about whether anti-spam
>     measures by ISPs are nefarious or not vary.

Is there any evidence of spammers using STARTTLS?  That would take an 
unbelievable amount of sophistication on their (the spamware authors) 
part.

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