Vernon Schryver wrote:
That's a good policy for people for whom mail is only a recreation or
hobby. It does not work for people whose bread and butter depends on
receiving mail from strangers.
(snip)
The notion of outlawing MIME, Base64, HTML, etc among consenting MTAs
and MUAs is red herring. No one can seriously propose eliminating them.
However, you would cut down you spam load significantly if you rejected
all mail with "Content-type: text/html" SMTP or MIME entity headers
from strangers.
How can you have it both ways? You either receive email from strangers
or you don't. Those who want to recieve mail from strangers can simply
not block any email, or continue to use filters. Those who don't, should
be able to require verifiable identification through some means.
If one's bread and butter dependes on receiving email from strangers,
then they need an open mail box. Most (I believe a very high percentage)
of email users don't depend on email from strangers for their living.
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