On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Sanford Whiteman wrote:
Try doing all your tech support in 512-character phrases from now on.
Been there. Done that. Lots of ISPs like AOL do it. Just include an URL
on the first line. The web page (customized by a transaction id
parameter) has lots of information. If the MTA reports the reject in a DSN to
the sender, it is even clickable in most email clients.
Guess what: it's not like the developers of the original C/R concept
had never heard of the SMTP protocol. They just knew their idea would
be _even lamer_ if they tried to express it using such an, ahem,
concise end user interface.
I have no problem with C/R - as long the C/R system checks SPF and maybe
DKIM before responding - or at least send the C/R as a real DSN (null
MAIL FROM) so I can reject it via SRS or other VERP. As for those that don't -
I hadn't thought of confirming the spammers as revenge. I guess I'm not evil
enough. Tempting though ....
The age-old "problem" of not being able to send mail because the
receiver set a policy that stopped being feasible in around 1983, or
whenever the first non-techie end user used SMTP.
Since I pay to receive the mail, and it's my domain, I'll reject anyone I like,
thank you very much. You are thinking in terms of a large free email provider
like gmail. Spam may eventually drive large email providers out of business.
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Stuart D. Gathman <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.
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