Re: test message

[Piet Beertema <]

> I had a long conversation with the Italian MEP pushing the opt-out 
> legislation forward, Marco Cappato, and he explained to me that all
> users could avoid spam simply by looking at the message Subject before 
> downloading it. I told him the Subject field wasn't part of the SMTP
> protocol so the spam had to be received before seeing the Subject and
> he said that's not true because on his Hotmail account he can see the
> Subject without downloading the message... He said all ISPs must
> provide the same system Hotmail has.
And they all must vote Forza Italia, I suppose?
Even so this guy provides the basis for a brilliant idea: every
spammer *must* use a hotmail.com address, so you don't even have
to look at the Subject to determine the nature of a message: the
from-address will do, and SMTP has hold of this. I'd love to see
this implemented, since I refuse *all* mail from such addresses. ;-)

> I also spoke (by email) to the British MEP responsible for pushing the UK
> side of the opt-out legislation - Michael Cashman MEP. He said that because
> so much spam was coming into the UK from the US, spam must be allowed in
> the UK or else our spammers would be at a commercial disadvantage...
How true. But he said *in* the UK... ;-)
Gee, I love idiots...


        Piet