On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 05:58 Europe/London, meor(_at_)mail(_dot_)SoftHome(_dot_)net
wrote:
>Legitimate bulk mailing would become excrutiatingly painful.
Well, right now legitimate bulk mailing is kind of broken. In order
for myself to sign up to this list I had to send and receive 3 pieces
of E-Mail. In the overview I did address bulk mailing. If a bulk
mailer is on a white list of someone(legitimate), then the bulk mailer
does not have to use any CPU time to send the message, it is allowed
to be sent as simply as it is right now. This makes it perfectly
possible for a bulk mailer to send out hundreds of thousands of E-Mail
messages to users who want to receive them. I don't see how
legitimate bulk mailing would be hindered by this method. On the
contrary; I think this method could help out bulk mailers as end users
would clearly know who they've placed on their list of accepted
senders and would eliminate users accidentally reporting legitimate or
solicited bulk mail as unsolicited.
If you sign up for C|Net's daily newsletters, who do you whitelist?
*(_at_)cnet(_dot_)com? *(_at_)news(_dot_)com?
Or do you have to wait for the newsletter to come in before you can
create a whitelist entry for them?
I ask because C|Net's newsletter doesn't come from anywhere you might
expect it to come from.
Matt.
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