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Re: [Asrg] The Consent 4-Tuple

2003-03-07 08:56:51
"Jon Kyme" <jrk(_at_)merseymail(_dot_)com> wrote:
The sender always "consents" to send the mail (modulo accidents). So we
would never see mail that it is unlikely that the Sender MUA would work
in a way against the senders wishes. And it would be totalitarian indeed
if it did. 

I'm not sure that that's always the case.

  Take virus.  The email originator is often an individual with a
laptop, who *isn't* running mail/virus filters, so they're (0,*,*,*)
for viruses.  This allows the viruses to spam themselves to hundreds
of people.

  With a virus scanner installed, the originators are (-,*,*,*) for
that problem, and therefore don't contribute to the spam problem.

As has been said earlier on this list, we need to identify the
entities giving and seeking consent (and the precise nature of that
consent?), Alans algebra works towards that. We also need to
characterise the "communication". This may include consideration of
endpoints (or other traffic characteristics - rate?) as well as
content.

  I agree.  Without some kind of short-hand notation, we're left with
statements like "the originator failed to indicate non-consent, the
MTA's had no opinion, and the recipient filtered out the email as spam
from a virus".  I find it (0,0,0,-) much simpler, and much more
definitively descriptive of the situation.

  Alan DeKok.

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