At 3:48 PM -0600 4/3/03, Brad Spencer wrote:
There's a reason for everyone to use honeypots right there: you can
forget worrying about the definition of spam. If you trap it then
it's spam. Boom.
A honeypot is generally easy to filter However there is some noise
from people creating example addresses, using fake addresses to sign
up for things, mistyping an address and such. As a result I have no
good way to determine what percentage of the email we bounce is spam.
Even though they all go to addresses that never existed. But
somewhere.com is an extreme case.
But those aren't the issue. The issue is the email you get at real
addresses. That includes mail you asked for, mail from affiliates of
people you gave your address, mail from people they sold your address
to.... The definition of those varies.
Frankly, I think we could solve almost all of the ambiguous cases with one law.
"Thou shalt not sell email addresses."
Then if you get bulk email from a company that you didn't give your
address to, you *know* it's spam.
Unfortunately, I can't come up with a good argument why a company
should be allowed to sell my phone number but not my email address.
Then again, I'm not clear on why the government isn't allowed to use
cookies, but can track my airline travel.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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