On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:13:26PM +0100, John Kelly wrote:
Many users won't complain, because they're glad to have an INBOX free of porn spam and other garbage. For that, they don't mind sacrificing a potential 2% false positives.
Unless one of the lost mails is a very very important mail, then you may hear from a lawyer. Your job as a mail admin is simple: deliver all mails sent to me in my inbox, not more, not less. What I do with my mails is not your concern. Then you are always safe. I don’t want others to filter my mail.
You may tag mails, yes, but not more, unless you have a written permission from me to do so, and I am informed about the risks.
software they prefer. But I don't get involved with that. Anyone who exerts that much effort just to avoid a few false positives, is on their own.
Be liberal in what you accept…
Those users will just have to relay through a smart host, like all the dynamic cable and dsl users in the developed world.
They may simply not have one, or are not allowed to connect to it.
However, even that modest set of requirements has been too much for the largest providers to implement for fear of the breakage it would cause.It's more fear, than breakage.
Since you can get sued for lesser things nowadays, I wouldn’t do it without a really waterproof concept.
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