A new requirement for the list from Alan (where the definition, criteria for
'legitimate' are covered by Req 7)
Spam solutions should affect 'legitimate' bulk emailers as little as
possible.
Requirement 8) The proposal SHOULD NOT attempt to affect legitimate messaging
system uses for bulk mailing. [This may also be covered by Req 3 but IMHO,
this is more discreeet in the approach.]
-e
On Friday, March 28, 2003 7:14 AM, Alan DeKok
[SMTP:aland(_at_)freeradius(_dot_)org]
wrote:
pattib(_at_)gammon(_dot_)com wrote:
Legit email marketers are pretty far away from the millions-of-
addresses CDs ... They don't always follow anti-spam best
practices, and sometimes they even screw up, but in general, legit
email marketers will try pretty damned hard not to send mail to
people who don't want it.
The 'legitimaate' emails would appear to satisfy the following
criteria:
a) send a lot of email
b) are willing to publicly state who they are, and why
they're sending the email
c) are willing to remove people from their lists
d) try to have only 'opt-in' lists
The amount of mail from bulk emailers who *don't* satisfy all of
those criteria is probably a thousand, to a million times worse than
the amount of mail from bulk emailers who do satisfy those criteria.
Spam solutions should affect 'legitimate' bulk emailers as little as
possible. But if we can agree on that, the "problem" of email from
bulk emailers is so small that it's irrelevant to the discussion about
spam.
Alan DeKok.
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