I'm not sure if it's even worth responding to you, but here I go anyway....
All mail servers scan your email when you send to one of their users. Mine scanned your below message several times in a row - first to look for certain headers that I don't want coming through (like that subject prefix that adult-oriented sites are required to use, for example), then again to look words in the body that I don't want to come through (for various things, from links to sites that could harm my users, to signatures of specific viruses, to stuff about mortgages that nobody should be using their work email to take care of), then again to see if the message was addressed to the postmaster (at which point all other rules are stopped and the message goes straight to the postmaster account), then again to check for attachments and add headers for certain kinds, then again to check those headers and block certain kinds of attachments, then again to check for viruses, etc...etc...etc...
Given that all of the above is standard mail procedure (maybe not at an ISP, but certainly at a corporation with specific strict usage policies, and even at an ISP many of the above are standard) I hope you can understand how pathetic your argument is.
-- Jeff Wheeler Postmaster, Network Admin US Institute of Peace
On Aug 19, 2004, at 1:39 PM, Lou Katz wrote:
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:13:29PM -0700, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
Joshua Brady wrote:
I've got 2 Gmail invites up for grabs for the first 2 to email me offlist.
You know, I'm having trouble finding people that *don't* have gmail.com
accounts already. :P
Because G-mail scans INCOMING mail without the sender's consent, we will NEVER
have a G-mail account and have considered blocking them. We actively discourage
our clients from using this service. If you want to let a service scan YOUR mail,
it is your perogative, but you cannot give them permission to scan MY mail to you.
YMMV.
-Jonathan "G-mail-less" Nichols
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