At 3:50 PM -0400 4/29/03, Ken Hirsch wrote:
> >That's what most
>small businesses do now. It's no great hardship.
Do you have any numbers to back up that? My personal experience is
that I know hundreds of small business that are providing their own
email through DSL and other providers. In most cases the ISP doesn't
provide more than 1 to 4 email addresses, and none using the
customer's domain. What makes you think that is rare?
Well, I don't have numbers, but who cares? There is no hardship involved in
sending outgoing mail through the ISPs SMTP server. You don't have to use
the same domain name.
As a small business owner--I care. And you're living in a fantasy
world if you think it's not a hardship. It's not even *possible* for
most small business. The ISP does not provide the service, and does
not want to.
The purpose of the standard is not to define what is spam or what is an
acceptable antispam policy, only to ensure that the policies can be defined,
communicated, and enforced.
Ah. Then please remove the double-opt-in requirement from the standard.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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