Re: Inexpensive anti-spamware/anti-verminware tactic

James Craig Burley <[email protected]> 9 Mar 2004 18:01:24 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.im2000
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>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>