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Re: A new technique to anti spam

2004-10-24 02:39:43
Worrisome side effect:

I can now only read the mail as long as the sender's mail server remains online.

If the evaluation happens at read-time, not at fetch-time, this also means that if I use "file-and-forget", as I do with many mailing lists, and return to my archive a year later, many of the messages won't be there, since I didn't read them, and the senders have later moved on.

So in practice, I have to let my computers evaluate the request and fetch the message with no human interaction. Some bandwidth may be saved, but the email infrastructure became more complex.

Worth it?

                   Harald


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