"Chris Lewis" <clewis(_at_)nortel(_dot_)com> wrote:
Gordon Peterson wrote:
First of all, ultimately the ONLY authority which TRULY determines FOR A
FACT whether a given piece of e-mail is unwanted or not is the final
recipient.
You're being awfully absolute in that statement.
Wanting is something that anybody can do.
The only authority who can truly determine if the final recipient
wants the mail is the final recipient. And that opinion is subjet to
change over time, even for the same piece of mail. (User gets an ad
to take a friend to a particular movie for free, does so, and the
movie is so awful he wishes he hadn't received the ad.)
The only authority who can determine whether I want the final
recipient to receive the mail is me.
The only authority who can determine whether the final recipient's
employer wants the final recipient to recieve the mail is the final
recipient's employer.
Etc.
Certainly, if you're a, say, spam or virus researcher, you might
want to get your email flow raw. Fine. Just don't expect a
commodity ISP to accommodate you at commodity prices. They simply
can't afford the risk to their infrastructure.
Some will; what's the risk to a BSD infrastructure of letting
customers receive Windoze viruses? (Sure, they have to be careful
about outgoing mail, but that's true anyway because there are plenty
of non-email ways for lusers to become infected.)
Seth
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