At 8:45 -0700 4/8/03, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
If senders could just learn (I believe they can) to revisit the outbox
returning the body is mostly a leftover from days before most users
had a gui client and an outbox. does AOL have an outbox? I don't
remember.
Yes. Everything does, even my phone, palm pilot, yada yada...
Right, so "leftover from days..." suggests it could be lost without
horrible side effects, and a generally better world would ensue (re
both spam and privacy)
I think the idea of a bounce that contains the original message
body has been the core problem and a vector for spammers... and
could be solved by mandating a return-to-sender of full status data
less any of the message body.
then the spammers will just put their message in an X-header. (grin, sort of)
but mail clients could be setup to not show headers, not
display/load/interpret html/scripts in headers, etc... so sort of,
yes, but it seems the overall information capacity available in this
exploit would seem to be greatly diminished by just saying that
bounces are about delivery status, not about regenerating content.
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