David Jameson wrote:
Yes, typically when you buy something online, you KNOW to expect an
email response pretty quickly so you can go look in your 'holding pen'
for it.
this is atrocious human factors. The whole point behind an antispam system is
so that you don't have to look at the stuff.
However, this problem could be solved completely in the short term if we
could get merchants to provide an extra field in the form you fill in.
You as a user would add any text or code you like to that field. When
the merchant sends you any email, they include the contents of that
field in the subject line of their message.
You then create a single permission rule (either in your spam blocker or
indeed in any email client that supports basic filters) that allows
anything with that text to come through. Since each user would have a
completely different code there, it would be unbreakable by spammers.
again, human factors nightmare. My mother-in-law (74-year-old lovely person)
wouldn't be able to cope. To give you a feel for her level of skill, she uses
an I-opener Web terminal and is quite comfortable sending e-mail and browsing
the Web. She's even getting comfortable google. In contrast she doesn't know
how to operate a VCR and is suspicious of remote controls. Telling her she
needs to add a special field and have that field found by antispam filter
whenever she orders something online? Not bloody likely.
A stamp model simplifies the entire process because it is done without requiring
any human interaction.
--- eric
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