Re: Inexpensive anti-spamware/anti-verminware tactic
James Craig Burley <[email protected]> 9 Mar 2004 18:01:24 -0000
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>James Craig Burley <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's not correct because ISP customers *can* control that storage, by >> canceling outgoing messages, thus deleting them from their portion of >> the outgoing message store. > >Yes, I've already covered that. If the sender ever deletes messages >from their outgoing mail store then they are annoying the recipients. >I personally would certainly be exceedingly annoyed to see arbitrary >messages from my inbox suddenly start disappearing because of >circumstances I had no knowledge of and no control over. > >You listed many different ways in which senders could decide what >messages to delete, but they all suffer from the common flaw that from >the recipient's point of view they are being offered a message and >then when they try to read it it is being suddenly yanked away from >them. This will piss people off *bigtime*. Yup. -- James Craig Burley Software Craftsperson <http://www.jcb-sc.com>