Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 2006/02

From: o4rmondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Email 'postage'
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:18:25 -0500

Thank you, Mark. If I may be permitted one final off-topic question:

Most (all?) Postal Services on this planet have sufficient control over
their individual post offices that they can say: "No letter will be
accepted for delivery in the first place unless it has a postage stamp
on it."

Is there a similar 'authority' on the Internet, perhaps related to
assigning domain names or to creating routing maps, which could order
that no email of a certain description be accepted for delivery if it
lacks a 'postage stamp'?

Or does the decision to deliver email rest entirely with the addressee's
ISP?

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