Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> writes:
On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 12:53:16PM -0700, Ross Wright wrote: [...]
For no reason whatsoever should you cancel a message you did not send yourself.
Yep.
How about if it is an employee of yours, using your computer equipment, that sent the message, in explict contradition to your companies stated policy?
Use a retraction server (David's project)
How about if it is your 5 year old child who just sent a 5 megabyte spam to 500 groups?
Ditto.
What if the message is forged in such a way that it looks exactly as if it came from you?
Ditto, and consider setting up a service to automatically issue NoCeMs for forgeries.
What if the sender asks you to cancel it because they don't know how?
Make the retraction server easier to use.
Absolutist thinking is *almost* always wrong :-)
kent Crispin sounds like a pedophile. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps