While senders certainly can't dictate receiver policy, giving an
indication of what they expect to have happen is perfectly
reasonable and reduces uncertainty.
Uncertainty about what? You can be 100% certain that if you've
published your policies in SSP, any receiver who cares to know about
them can look them up.
No matter what you do, you don't get certainty about their internal
filtering practices any more than you get certainty about whether
their internal delivery practices use POP, IMAP, or Baudot paper tape.
Not to speak for Scott K but I do not believe he was saying senders
expected certainty about internal filtering. SSP explicitly says this is
not the case.
Here's my spin:
As a sender the ability for me to state my desired (NOT DICTATED)
receiver policy increases the likelihood that this policy will be
considered and honored.
Senders that cannot state a desired (NOT DICTATED) receiver policy are
guaranteed such a policy will not be considered nor honored.
I desire a SSP that allows senders to state strict/deny. I care not a
whit what others do with such a policy but I feel it is beneficial
because senders want to state such policies and I can build a better
receiving system that takes it into account. Why should this be withheld
from the Internet because others think it's not useful for them?
pat
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