On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:47:59PM -0800, william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net wrote
1. Commercial emailers agree to general classification of email based on
subject of what is being advertised (i.e. for example adult, internet
services, other service, electronic goods, sports goods, etc)
5. When commercial mailer wants to send somebody an email, they check dns
for that domain and obtain id of the agency. They have to contact the
agency and got authorization to use its services (probably pay them too)
and agency needs to verify whatever it can about the commecial mailer.
Once verified commercial mailer is granted authorized access to agencie's
database and can verify email addresses.
You're effectively saying that an advertiser is going to blast out
to the adresses on a "Millions CD", and there'll be an on-the-fly
listwashing conducted. If the sender doesn't already have confirmation
from individual users that they want the mailing, it *IS* spam.
7. When commecial mail operator is sending email, they HAVE TO
include special header in the email
And the "special header in the email" will be in the DATA: block, and
can only be parsed if you accept the entire email. Oh, did I mention
that broadband ISPs in Canada now surcharge extra if you exceed your
monthly bandwidth quota ? Accepting the email, even if it is discarded
immediately, counts on your quota. In other words, it can cost actual
money.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org>
An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will
eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure,
and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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