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JRS:  In article <1060300459snz@dsl.co.uk>, seen in
news:demon.ip.support, Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk> posted at
Fri, 8 Aug 2003 18:33:47 :-
>In article <MPG.199ca86338a996bb989852@News.individual.NET>
>           newsjul03@ms3.org.uk "Michael Salem" writes:
>
>> On a POP3 system you can't bounce messages back to sender. I don't think 
>> this is a good idea anyway, as the bounce always goes to an innocent 
>> whose name has been taken in vain anyway.
>
>Not ALWAYS: there ARE occasions on which someone writes to a misspelt
>username (or one that has moved on and hence is inactive).  For those
>(adnittedly a minority) is IS helpful to bounce the misaddressed mail
>rather than discarding it silently.

Indeed.  One may often want to bounce mail that is other than bulk-
strewn spam.

I recall a Merkin who seemed to believe that I would like to get, by E-
mail, a copy of his 200KB Web page whenever it was updated.  I did ask
him not to; but bouncing was much more effective.  It also works to deal
with those who persist in duplicating News in Mail.

There is, ISTM, a need for a protocol that enables a user on a slow link
(standard dial-up, mobile phone, etc.) to do, without wasteful transfer
of data, all that can be done to mail sitting on a server. One should be
able to look at selected header lines of mails, sorted into selected
order, and decide for each one whether it should be bounced, deleted, or
fetched (immediately or later), forwarded, or left for later
consideration.
 
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