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> What if email were "pickup only" _from the sender_. Congrats, you've invented DJB's Internet Mail 2000[1]. Definitely a good proposal for moving the burden
by zimpenfish 2y ago
> What if email were "pickup only" _from the sender_.
Congrats, you've invented DJB's Internet Mail 2000[1]. Definitely a good proposal for moving the burden of spam back to the spammers but I don't think anyone took the time to seriously consider it.
[1] https://cr.yp.to/im2000.html https://cr.yp.to/im2000.html
- jimbobthrowawy 2y agoPickup email makes one problem in spam much worse. It demonstrates that the address being spammed is valid and active. That's one of the reasons most email clients/hosts don't load remote resources by default. Unless there was a google-scale grab-n-cache going on for those messages, I think there'd be a problem.