Re: Feedback on Hypertext Mail Protocol (a.k.a. Stub Email)

> ...a typical intermediate MTA,
> employing retrieval solely (or largely) for obfuscation purposes...

Note that even if the benefits of obfuscation prove to be little or 
none, the obfuscation technique would still be useful simply as a way 
to spite the sender, which 99% of the time is a spammer.

For most legitimate email senders, even if the amount of bandwith they 
use for sending emails increases tenfold, it would still be much much 
less than the amount of bandwith they use for other purposes, e.g. web 
browsing, audio, video, games, graphics, etc. Perhaps this is not as 
much the case in 3rd world countries yet, but in 2nd world countries I 
think it is already the case (not to mention 1st world), and I don't 
think the 3rd world is too far behind.

Nathan