At 06:08 PM 4/16/2003 +0100, Jon Kyme wrote:
I don't see that there's what the charter calls "a realistic chance of
wide-scale deployment" for what you propose.
What evaluation of the chances have you done?
The simple fact that twenty million people are not going to set up a
system which can be easily defeated by a mediocre programmer in an
afternoon. Your entire concept depends on the assumption that the
spammer won't be able to tell that their email isn't being delivered.
Yet detecting deliverability is trivial. You can do it with dummy
addresses. You can do it with test addresses that get the
bounce-back. The fact spammers don't do it now means only that you
haven't done anything worth their notice.