Re: Inexpensive anti-spamware/anti-verminware tactic

Jon Ribbens <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Mar 2004 13:48:55 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.im2000
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <[email protected]> wrote:
> JR> So recipients will find messages randomly disappearing 
> JR> from their inboxes. 
> 
> Another mischaracterisation.  It's not random at all.  It's under the
> originator's (and the mail store owner's) control.

Which makes it, from the recipient's point of view, random, since they
have no way of knowing what settings the originator is using, and
different originators will have different settings.

> And of course if the message is removed from the message store, the
> message store will stop sending notifications about it.

That won't remove it from the "recipient notification agent" though.

> JR> ISP customers will be billed extra for storage that 
> JR> is not under their control and that they can do nothing 
> JR> about. 
> 
> Another straw man that bears no resemblance to the actual system being
> discussed.

I identify a huge flaw in the proposed system and you are unable to
explain why it's not correct. Interesting.