Travis Crump wrote: > my response is that e-mail's purpose is for easy communication > with a wide range of people who you may not know.
No worries there. The filter would be turned off by default. It would be silly to force people to restrict their options. > I already have a reliable solution for filtering spam. > It is spamassassin. There is no reason why this feature would stop anyone from using anything they already have. Especially an anti-spam system that is earlier in the process then downloading. > If I have to download the message to my computer to > filter it, I have already wasted my bandwidth Agreed. I'm not familiar with spamassassin but everyone I know who is plagued by spam already downloads everything. So for most people right now this feature would be a boon. > Many people consider a mailing list setting the Reply-To to the mailing > list to be extremely broken behaviour. Sounds like you're right. The real idea with the filter is to block every e-mail when the from address is not in your address book. If it's a bad idea to encourage mailing lists behavior like this, then the filter would just have to be turned off by those who use mailing lists. All in all. I think it's still a feature that describes the way most people use e-mail. Most people don't do mailing list or new groups or anything. However, it's a moot point. My C/C++ is very rusty so unless someone took a personal interest in the feature it wouldn't get made. Justin
