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Right.... I was almost arrested twice because I refused to accept delivery of junk mail and the local postmaster thought he was some sort of diety.

The DMM D042 Subsection 1.2 and 1.3 deal with refusal of mail at and after time of delivery. By forcing the mail to be carried in both directions is the only way to stop junk mail.

It will then become to costly for the USPS and they will have to raise the rates. Then less will use bulk mail so the USPS will again have to raise the rates. This will continue until the use of junk mail ceases if people would stop whining and start refusing delevery of the garbage.

This is what I do to stop junk mail, what is it you do again? Oh yes, tou wish to stop email as stated in your paragraph below. What you propose will stop spam as it is sent currently. But it will not stop spam in the future and restricts email use as does whitelisting when it is used as a filter against spam.

In effect what you do is add an extra step in the sending and recieving of email to the home user that is so large businesses cannot get around it.

Say I wished to sign up for a newsletter so I subscribe. They send out their signup confirmation, I send out a challange for them to verify who they are mailing me. You get the picture, er, maybe you do but I am just not sure. Apply this to business transactions.

Now I will not respond to a challange myself because I will not go through the extra step to talk to somebody. I treat challanges as spam as well if I did not sned the first email.

My reasoning for this is simple.

I do not believe it will be a constructive way to stop spam. It hinders communication between two individuals and that is simply wrong in my opinion. Now before you go and say I am pro-business the facts are I think email should be used for exactly the purpose it was purchased for.

My personal email address is for personal communication between me and who I give it out to and nobody else. If I have one used for business it is to be used for that purpose and a narrow vision of that as well.

IOW I am not pro-business and the other can even be said.

And you would profit from this and profit is your motivation, not stopping spam or you would not be calling all that do not like the CR spammers without any proof, evidence or anything at all, except your dislike.

-- Mark