At 13:02 3/17/2003 +0100, you wrote:
At 17.03.2003 11:34 +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.
I suppose average users would soon become annoyed if they had to whitelist
every newsletter they subscribe to.
White listing isn't a complex operation. The ease and complexity of adding
someone to your white list is dependant on your E-Mail client. If, for
instance, Outlook tied white lists with your address book, the user would
hardly know they're even white listing someone. The simple act of sending
an E-Mail to someone could add them to your white list. As I said earlier,
I had to send and receive 3 E-Mails to sign up for this list. If the
proposed method was implemented, only one would have to be sent. The one
E-Mail would add the list's public key to my white list(implicitly by
sending them an E-Mail), and the list owner would know that I signed up for
it(no one signed me up for it out of spite), because of my public key.
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