Justin Scott wrote: > Here is a reliable solution for filtering spam. >
I already have a reliable solution for filtering spam. It is spamassassin. If I have to download the message to my computer to filter it, I have already wasted my bandwidth[Mozilla doesn't currently support downloading just the headers for a POP account even if it were theoretically possible], I have already lost. I have seen other people propose a similar system to yours, and my response is that e-mail's purpose is for easy communication with a wide range of people who you may not know. If you lose this, you have already lost. > > MAILING LISTS: > Accepting only e-mail where the reply target is in address book > allows this user to receive mail from a mailing list. As long as the > e-mail is such that when this user click's reply the e-mail is targeted > to an address in this users address book. Many people consider a mailing list setting the Reply-To to the mailing list to be extremely broken behaviour. I subscribe to several lists where this opinion prevails. The reasoning goes that the Reply-To is intended to be where the sender says he wants replies to him to be sent. If this header is replaced with a Reply-To pointing to the list than this information is irretrievably lost.
