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So what if we just change email to work like this: Mail server will not let incoming messages through unless you've first A) sent a message to that domain AND B
by tenebrisalietum 4y ago
So what if we just change email to work like this: Mail server will not let incoming messages through unless you've first A) sent a message to that domain AND B) received a reply that doesn't look like an error or bounce.
Yes, you'll have to send an email somewhere with little to no content to initiate reception of things like invoices, password resets, and monitoring emails. Is that such a bad thing?
Yes, spammers will desperately try to get you to send an email, any email, to their domain, or cybersquat on common typos. These problems might have easier and better solutions than letting tech giants takeover a formerly open Internet protocol that anyone should have the ability to use.
- mgoetzke 4y agoHow would the first mail come through ?
- zerocrates 4y agoThey're saying you, the would-be recipient of later messages, would have to initiate by sending a message.
- Closi 4y agoYeah, but then the other persons mailbox will reject you because they haven’t messaged you yet.
- bombcar 4y agoYeah, if every single mail server worked that way, you couldn't ever get off the ground.
- Closi 4y agoWell I guess you could base it on some sort of reputation system…
- W0lf 4y agoThat sounds a lot like the idea from Peter Huth’s Mail-Terror-Blocker PRO, a theater drama studied guy that happened to become an _internet expert_ by accident here in Germany back in the 2000s. Unfortunately, his program failed in the most hilarious ways and quickly became a joke in the usenet groups back in the day.
- konschubert 4y agoI don't know the guy, but what's the problem with somebody being theater drama studied? Like somebody can't be an expert at something without having gone through formal education for it?
- W0lf 4y agoNice framing. However, I was rather thinking about the _drama_ he created back then with his software due to a logical error. To me it had some resemblance of a nice play at the time.
- robjan 4y agoThat's sort of how Gmail does work in my experience. Once there is evidence of an account replying to email from a "less reputable" domain / IP, they tend to let all follow-up correspondence through. The problem is that people managing their own server wouldn't be able to initiate conversations with people who give them business cards, for example.