Reindl Harald wrote: > schrieb Bob Proulx: > > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> Bob Proulx wrote: > >>> Plus Google can "undeliver" a message from your Inbox if you have not > >>> read it yet. Say a spammer slowly sends sneaky spam to 10,000 people. > >>> After the first dozen report the message as spam then the next 9988 > >>> have the message undelivered from their Inbox over to the Junk folder. > >> > >> While I can assume they would have this capability have you ever seen > >> them actually do it? > > > > Like Herman Cain "I don't have facts to back this up." but believe it > > to be true based upon other people's reports on the net. > > > > The capability seems plausible. It would be easy and reasonable for > > Google to implement. For any large email provider such as Google, > > Yahoo, others *not* to implement that feature seems implausible. If > > you could then why wouldn't you do it? > > because if i am smart i do not implement any feature which i do > not use as i do not install any package i do not use > > why? > > because every feature and code lying around may and will > sooner or later introduce side effects at updates or > unexpected situations and makes it harder to maintain > the codebase
If it were a bad feature I would agree. If it were a feature that frivolously did unrelated things then I would agree. But it doesn't. Is it a creeping feature? No. Is it core to the problem of anti-spam? Yes. Is it useful? Yes. Bad effects? No. Being able to undeliver spam after it has been detected later and if it is as yet unread is none of those bad things. This is a positive anti-spam feature in the core feature set of an email provider. Therefore the simple argument of "more code bad" does not apply. Otherwise everyone who starts a program by copying "Hello world." and expanding it would be stopped immediately by the inability to add code in order to have it provide more functionality. Bob
