Popularity Contest: (Dapper) bouncing mail

[Derek Broughton]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> Seems a little unnecessary - why would they feel that I _must_ give them
>> a valid email address?  It makes me a little less confident of their
>> promises to not misuse any information they collect.
> 
> Don't be paranoid.  They're not out to get you; they weren't even at the
> meeting...  

:-)

I'm not paranoid.  I just feel that when you promise not to misuse private
information, you should collect as little private information as possible. 
I run a business - I collect NO private information I can live without,
because privacy laws make me responsible for protecting that information.

Requiring, if not a valid email address, at least an address that maps to a
valid domain, just seems to be silly in something that already gives some
users concerns about privacy issues (I'm not one of them - I didn't say I
couldn't dare use popcon, I said I was "less" confident).

Whether it's a default mail configuration (_not_ the default of any mail
server I've installed) is really pretty irrelevant.  I could also say that
running something like popcon on a mail server that the administrators
don't really understand makes me less confident in their promises...
-- 
derek