On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Christian Grunfeld wrote:
If your assumption was true, there was no spam today. If nobody would ever
answer to spam messages, there was no reason for spammers to keep spamming.
let people who wants spam to answer spam ! if you dont want spam dont
reply. Easy !
There are a lot of people who wants to sell viagra and send
spam....but I dont answer to them, dou you? :p
Significant number of non-savvy users who reply: "Take me off your D*MN
list" will defeat your paradigm
*check spam folder always
Many users do this only sporadically, if they do. Some users don't know
where to find the spam folder. Some organizations do not deploy per-user
quarantine area or spam folders. Etc. etc.
bad thing !
True, but if I need to read thru -all- my spam to make sure I don't miss
that one robo-mail from the airline about a problem with my on-line ticket
purchase, what's the point?
*mark as ham....
What mechanism do you propose to have the MUA tell the MTA/MDA that
something is not spam? Also take into account the tens or maybe even
hundreds of different MUA's around (thick clients, webmail clients,
applications etc. etc.) which need to be modified to support your idea...
Just answering with your MUA. The email goes back through the MTA.
Then it can put the sender in the whitelist.
OK, and how do you deal with the situation where the reply comes from a
different address than the original message? (EG: I send a message to
"[email protected]" and the reply comes from "[email protected]").
Flaws ?
Yes, many. Think of the automatic out-of-office replies, think of all
messages that are sent from noreply@ addresses these days (where the
originating organization tries to make clear by naming it 'noreply@' that
replies are not welcome), think of (solicited) newsletters, mailing lists
etc. etc.
automatic replies are those ! REPLIES to a mail sent by you ! thats
round trip ! this work best with people you used to comunicate with !
that is the idea !
What about all those replies that result from some activity -other- than
an initial e-mail? (EG I use a webform to sign up for a mail-list and they
send me a reply that contains a confirmation link).
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