Brad,

Where is the “internet cost contract” when a spammer sends 20 million daily unwanted messages and gets none in return?! We are not talking about a symmetrical exchange between ISPs (I’ll send you mail, you’ll send me mail, we’re both happy) but about a terrible asymmetry where some senders abuse the system. As a result, receivers got defensive and false positives became inevitable – legitimate, wanted, messages are mistakenly blocked – a collateral damage of the war against spam and phishing. CertifiedEmail is one attempt to fix part of the problem.

In the email space, the only contract that counts is the one an ISP has with its subscribers: I’ll do my best to give you the messages you want and to block those you do not.

Brad, you repeat here comments identical to those you made on CircleID. I particularly liked the fact you acknowledged there that the EFF is using inflammatory rhetoric not to your liking. May I suggest your readers should be exposed to the rebuttals you got on CircledID from Paul Hoffman, Larry Seltzer, Brett Watson, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Peter Bowyer, and yours truly:

http://www.circleid.com/posts/future_of_some_email_may_not_use_email/#co...

Peace,

Daniel Dreymann, Goodmail Systems