[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

RE: more silly questions

• To: "'Amelia A Lewis'" <amyzing@t...>
• Subject: RE: more silly questions
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 18:18:48 -0000
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <20040208124014.0aec37ca.amyzing@t...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> How would an XML schema for email address this issue?

It wouldn't of course. But a redesign of the email protocols could. The
fundamental flaw in the system is the assumption that anyone in the
world, without proving their identity, has a right to send me garbage
and to use the bandwidth that I am paying for. The protocols are wrong
because they are designed to implement this wrong assumption.

The designers of the modern postal service got it right: the sender, not
the recipient, should pay. I still get junk mail through the letterbox,
but not 400 a day.

Michael Kay

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: more silly questions
    • From: "William J. Kammerer" <wkammerer@n...>

• References:
  • Re: more silly questions
    • From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@t...>

• Prev by Date: RE: Re: Can A Web Site Be Reliably Defended Against DoS Attacks?
• Next by Date: RE: more silly questions
• Previous by thread: Re: more silly questions
• Next by thread: Re: more silly questions
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread