Email transmission has several stages, the majority are
transparent to the end user.
1. The Email server makes a request to begin transmitting
by logging onto the 'EAS'.
Don't you mean Email client?
2. This is passed to the ISP's 'EAS' which, results in transmission
of a graphic with obscured word on it to the client.
3. The client enters the word into a prompt and the first email is
sent to the 'EAS'.
You make no statement about how often I have to respond to this
graphic. Or how any of this works with automatically generated
messages. My mailbox has hundreds of automated messages in it every
day--generated by support systems, cron tasks and other automated
systems at various machines around the internet. You can't cut that
off.
You keep talking about ISPs as though they are the only people who
run mail servers. You are describing a central database that needs to
manage information about millions of mail servers from countries
around the world. It has to have a dispute mechanism for complaints,
and it has the power to put any of those companies out of business.
What government or company would cede that kind of control to an
unregulated organization? Also, you have a huge loophole in
non-commercial mailing lists. What keeps spammers from repeatedly
signing up as non-commercial mailing lists, sending out millions of
messages, and then creating a new list. Additionally, you have
vastly underestimated the cost and infrastructure requirements if you
think you are going to have money left over.
And of course, it suffers from the standard adoption system. Until
the majority of the world is using the system, you can't block email
that doesn't use it. Therefore early adopters have to suffer through
the major pain of using the system, but get no benefit.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Anti-Spam Service for your POP Account
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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