Re: Moderated posts?
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:18 AM, lee <lee@yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net> writes:
>
>> And, in fact, more and more ISPs are just accepting and discarding
>> emails to non-existent users because rejecting such email helps spammers
>> (any non-rejected email must be a valid user).
>
> That's totally retarded. When I don't get an error message in return,
> the message I sent has been delivered. If it hasn't because there's
> some error, I will not be responsible for any damage that may hit the
> recipient or myself. Quietly dropping messages is not an option.
There is a header for requesting automatic confirmation of delivery,
but it tends to be abused by malicious junkmailers (spammers). MUAs
are supposed to be able to disable it, but I haven't seen that option
in an MUA settings dialog for a long time.
This is a grey area of the e-mail standard. People want it to be like
snail-mail, only automatic, but don't realize that having people in
the loop is what provides the desired feature.
I mean, you really can't have certified delivery without someone to certify it.
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and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy.
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