At 14:20 -0800 3/29/03, Dave Crocker wrote:
Jon,
Not that it's a solution, but it seems such a person could give blanket
consent
for potential collaborators or customers to contact him for professional
reasons related to ice cream, and if JK happens to be an eccentric ice
cream
inventor who talks to nobody, then he would presumably not give such
consent
because he truly does not care to be contacted/hired.
JK> Absolutely - yes. Many possible mechanisms for advertising consent
JK> before the fact.
This is a technical forum. Please list any of the technical mechanisms
that are reasonable candidates for use, in an environment with 100
million users and tens or hundreds of thousands of independent
administrative localities.
These sorts of minute-by-minute challenges are unlikely to lead to anything
useful. Why can't you just say that if someone wants to promote the idea
of a consent mechanism, that they should announce a research thread and
pursue it.
I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I can answer an old question with
a few minutes of head-scratching just because someone has thrown down
the gauntlet.
I'm not particularly interested in the topic, however I do seem to
subscribe to a more wide
interpretation of "consent" than you do... As I mentioned earlier,
consent is already
implied in the acceptance or rejection of mail at every step of the
process already.
Perhaps the small "consent" steps that exist now can be better
formalized to at least
provide more consistent results than are achieved now in a manner
that does not require
every last mailer on the net to be on board to work. I don't know,
really... research
and experimentation might tell us something about that. arguing about
it probably won't.
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