Paul G. Allen wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
How about "Doesn't work and makes the problem worse"? Is that a good
enough reason?
No, because I've used it, and it worked fine. I know a couple people
that use it, and it works for them too. I've heard of others that use it
or similar systems and they have been happy with them. In fact, I have
yet to hear of anyone actually having a problem with such a system.
There are some systems that will not send a response back to the sender
for confirmation and others that simply ignore an e-mails from address
not in the whitelist.
Your argument is the same as "My computer works for me. Why do I care
if it is spewing spam?."
First, I already pointed out that the spammers are now forging these
letters in an attempt to get you to click on malware links.
Congratulations. Your system has now introduced yet *another* way to
get stupid people to click on links and create even more spam producing
machines.
Second, I may be reading on a device which can't click a link.
Congratulations, your email just went to the bottom of the queue. I'll
get around to it (maybe), when I get back from Asia in two weeks (not).
Third, your system works only until you reach a critical mass when two
of these systems start talking to one another. Even if it doesn't set
up a cycle, the two systems will forever throw each other's mail out.
Fourth, if every system on the internet had this, by sending one email
message to each of a million of these, I can induce them to *all* send
an email to another domain simultaneously because there is no
verification of the sender. Thanks for the DDoS.
Fifth, if it's *really* profitable, spammers will pay people in random
third world country to click. They were doing similar things to Craigslist.
Finally, my spam filters are now recognize "Click here to
register/confirm" as spam. I may not even *see* the "please click this"
if I am not expecting it. If I just register for something, I'm likely
to go check the junk folder. A random email to "click here" isn't even
going to get noticed.
Need any more?
Pray that people *don't* start implementing it. If you got even 10% of
the internet to implement this, you would spend all day doing nothing
but asking your admin to whitelist exceptions or running through your
business email in your spam box in order to click links.
Oh, and don't click the one with the malware URL ...
-a
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