From: "Skip Brott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Why is it my responsibility as a holder of a valid email address to
accept
mail from anyone who wants to send me the mail? As the owner of the email
address or, as the admin of the domain's mail server, I have no
obligation
to
accept your mail at all.
Obligations should be on the sender.
I will respectfully disagree. I believe you are pushing the burden onto
the
sender rather than have your system accept the reponsibility of reviewing
messages for you. The C/R basically works the same way except the
challenge
goes to the recipient. Just a different concept. Personally, I won't
employ either one.
And if the sender acknowledges the C/R, if the sender is not a "bot" but
is
still from a source you don't want sending you email - what control do you
have over that?
The recipient does not have any responsibility to actually read any email
that comes in any more than the recipient of snail mail must read any
snail mail that comes in. (I trashcan lots of it without bothering to open
the envelopes if I recognize a sender who is annoying.)
In that light the recipient of either email or snail mail has the
responsibility of determining for themselves or delegating that
responsibility to another of THEIR choice and PAY for "spam filtering"
of snail mail or email.
Sending a challenge response snail mail becomes amusing as a concept.
The thought of doing so with email is equally absurd.
{^_^}
