At 11:34 3/17/2003 +0000, you wrote:
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.
This is a good question but there is an answer. When you sign up for a
list, you would do it similar to how you signed up for this mailing list to
the IRTF group. Each of you would send an E-Mail back to each other which
would in turn add each other to your respective white lists. When you
white list someone, you are white listing a single digital signature. This
digital signature ensures that you are getting E-Mail from the same person
each time. This digital signature is not for guaranteeing identity, it
only for guaranteeing that you receive E-Mail from the same person every
subsequent time you receive mail. So if cnet was sending out a news
letter, you would exchange E-Mails(slowly the first time because neither of
you are white listed with each other) and add each other to your white
lists(indexed by public keys). At this point you will be able to receive
any E-Mail signed by someone with the public key you received at full
speed(the speed at which mail is sent right now). Also it is worth
pointing out that these public keys can be hidden from end users, this will
not add complexity to E-Mailing.
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