Hi Jesse, what do you think of my point of view?
> > > - you are placing the burden of reducing the spam in your system on all > the non-spam-sending users who wish to communicate with your users. If people want to have their free email, why not let them know about that their provider is harassing other providers and they have to take this action because of this. That is the price you have to pay for using free email or are at a provider that sends out large amounts of spam. Hopefully this will force people to move to a provider that does not send out spam? > - by raising the "cost" of sending legitimate mail to your users, you > will of course receive less legitimate mail along with less spam. Only from the spam network. And the spam network clients are informed about that the service they get there, is maybe not as it should be. Lots of people do not know about such things. > - for business transactions this costs business/money; eg. if faced > with such a system upon initial contact, I myself would choose to not > "click the link" and merely go to a competitor if there are other > reasonably equivalent businesses. not an absolute deal breaker, but > definitely a strong turn-off. If you get notified that you are hosting your business with a provider that mixes your emails with spam emails. Are you not thinking about to move your business to a different service provider? I would definitely ask myself wtf is. By staying at such a provider you indirectly support their behaviour.
