James Clark wrote:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:58:58AM -0500, Steve Phillips wrote:
Actually, the mailwasher team have been informed of this and their answer is "the customers like it, it stays, we dont care that it inconveniences the ISP postmasters" (an abreviated version)
We also had this response from the MW team, when I contacted them about this (from Wave, at the time), this was over two years ago. It would be nice if they saw the light.
It might help to remember that Mailwasher was built, on contract I think, at the behest of a non network/software person. It evolved from a shareware base. The owner made a killing too (I'm not sure the developer did), and I'm sure a major reason for its success that is the satisfaction that people derived from sending the bounces off to those nasty spammers. It is not in his interest to remove the option. Removing options from users makes them grumpy. I totally agree that its not a pretty thing for the internet as a whole, but until people start requesting refunds from him because of the feature it will not change, and even then its likely that they'll just be told not to tick the box that causes it. I believe the story of MW is around on the interweb somewhere, its an interesting story that I interpret as how identification of a vertical market combined with decent marketing can make you a whole lot of money. I'm jealous. /Bruce