Friday, Dec 11, 2015 2:35 PM Rich Kulawiec wrote:
If all email providers were behaving in a professional, ethical,
responsible fashion -- which includes, among other things, individually
answering and acting on every single message sent to their "abuse"
address -- then we could give this serious consideration.
This practice has been abandoned because it is impossible to do, not because
people are bad. The system has a massive scaling problem. DOSing an admin
problem report mailbox is trivially easy, and it's automatic, because spammers
always send spam to known addresses like this. So how on earth _could_ any
operator of mail service behave in what you are describe as a "professional,
ethical, responsible fashion?"
If the mail architecture is set up in such a way that people cannot operate it
according to the specifications, is that a problem with the people, or with the
architecture?
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