On 2004-12-05 12:20:42 -0500, Michael Kaplan wrote: > From: "Seth Breidbart" <sethb at panix.com> > Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 11:49:27 -0500 (EST) > > > "Michael Kaplan" <mkaplansolution at lycos.com> top-posted: > > > > > 2 - Innocent victims can only be sent bounces if spammers know their > > > address to begin with, and if you use this system then spammers > > > can't forge your address. It would also be a simple matter for a > > > email service provider to filter out this bounces if the user did > > > not initiate a email to the corresponding address. > > > > So two people using your system could never communicate. > > I thought that the issue that you were bringing up was the following: > A spammer forges your address and sends out a million pieces of spam > and you subsequently get an enormous number of bounces as per my > system. > I suggest that this won't be an issue as your email service provider > will only allow you to receive one of these special bounces if you had > just sent out the corresponding email. This is - to the best of my knowledge - not standard behaviour among email service providers today. So in effect you are saying: "Sure, my system will annoy almost everybody today, but if they adopt my system or start filtering bounces, they won't be bothered any more." hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Je höher der Norden, desto weniger wird |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | überhaupt gesprochen, also auch kein Dialekt. | | | hjp at hjp.at | Hallig Gröde ist fast gänzlich dialektfrei. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Hannes Petersen in desd
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