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I'm not a lawyer, but I doubt that kooky contract would survive in court.

My response to papers from his lawyers after I followed my practice of responding to all C-R challenges would be to have my laywers do two things. The first would be to respond formally saying that none of my mail is part of a bulk mailing that he did not ask for, but that as far as I can know the message being challenged was one I sent to some other address such as an IETF mailing list or have otherwise forgotten. Some of the legitiate C-R challenges I've received have involved addresses that I did not send to, but were where my messages were eventually forwarded.

The second task I'd give my lawyers would be to sue Dan for libel, slander, body odor, bad hair, and a general history of violations of IETF standards and other vexatious nonsense in qmail, TAP, and so forth. I'd also have my lawyers investigate an action under the CAN-SPAM Act, since Dan's challenge would be an advertisement of his system and my response would be the only way to opt-out of additional advertisements. Whichever of us ran out of money to pay lawyers first would sue for peace.