On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Seth <sethb(_at_)panix(_dot_)com> wrote:
"Gerald Klaas" <gklaas(_at_)sacto(_dot_)com> wrote:
You should print your own postage. Not as a sender, but as the
recipient.
That will do outblaze, AOL, gmail, and msn some good. Not so much for
the rest of us; how many senders will care about our relatively tiny
domains?
Exactly why we need a standard framework for the use of stamps.
Indeed, AOL, gmail and MSN could set-up such a system for use just between
themselves and benefit greatly from it. But with a standard "stamp"
framework, you could choose to put up your own "stamp" generator.
So how does a sender know you require a stamp? Where do they obtain one?
Once they've gotten one, how do they affix it to your e-mail (so that you
can filter on it)? Those are the questions a standard should answer.
Personally, I believe that there should be a standard method for deriving a
URL from e-mail addresses. That stamp generators should be placed at the
derived URL, and that affixing a stamp (retrieved from the URL) should be in
an "X-header". That's clearly not the only possible approach, but the
beginning of the discussion I'd like to see.
Gerald
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