Re: CAPTCHA over smtp (yet another spam solution to discuss)

"David Sanchez" <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:07:27 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.im2000
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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> I fully agree with this view. For a *critical* email it makes *more*
> sense for me to get to know right away that it could not be delivered so
> that I can try other means of contact. For a non-critical email, *in the
> rare case the recipients email server is down* I can just as well press
> 'send' again next time I open up my email program. (If the receiver is
> not happy about waiting for that email, he should keep his email server
> running, or setup a redundant server.)

Or make the whole Internet unbreakable, but incidentally systems fail,
and networks go down.

That's the fact and the WHOLE Internet was built with that idea in mind.

Again, IMHO an email without delayed delivering and retries is not
email, is just IM.

IMHO the use proposed here is not email, is another thing.