grenville armitage wrote: > > Many moons ago Ed Gerck wrote: > > > > If someone sends me a message asking for my comment > > > > because they read some other comment I wrote, do I really > > > > care who that someone is... or who they know? > > You yourself have identified the criteria 'they read some other comment > I wrote', not just "they wrote something interesting". I observe > that the former criteria qualifies as a variant of "...who they know". We seem to be in agreement that claiming that they know me, or that they know something I wrote, is indeed a variant of "who they know". My point was that "who they know" is useless as a criterium to _block_ email. What should matter most, in receiving email from people with no previous relationship to me, is the content of such message. Thus, "who you know" (in whatever variant) should be a bad metric to block email (even though it can be used well to accept email). A message should be of higher interest to me the less I know the person. That's one thing we shouldn't break in email.