No innocent user will ever get an erroneous bounce if a few of the
large consumer ISP adopt the system;
I must admit I find this statement utterly incomprehensible - or more
precisely, I find the idea that anyone of your obvious intelligence
could believe it utterly incomprehensible. How will - how *could* - "a
few of the large consumer ISPs" adopting your system, or any other,
prevent a small site handling its own mail in, say, San Jose, from
sending an erroneous bounce to a user at a small site handling its own
mail in, say, Ottawa?
I was unclear. What I meant was that it would be a simple matter for
and email provider to recognize a bounce sent via my system. The email
provider could then check to see if the recipient had previously sent out
an email to the supposed source of the bounce. If the recipient had not
sent out this earlier email then the bounce that is coming in must obviously
be an erroneous bounce and it would then be blocked. Now there is no chance
that anyone would receive an erroneous bounce. In your example above the
small site in San Jose would still send out the erroneous bounce, it's just
that the small site in Ottawa would filter it out before the user ever saw it.
If my system is used on a small scale then I would not expect any email
provider to lift a finger to adjust their system to filter out these erroneous
emails. If, however, some of the large consumer email providers used this
system then I believe that most other email providers would recognize this
system and begin filtering out erroneous bounces as described above.
Michael Kaplan
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