At 6:01 PM -0600 4/9/03, John Fenley wrote:
I'm sorry, but I don't want to deal with spam anymore. If I have to
do all this myself I will. If people choose not to contact me
because they don't want to take my test, then what they had to say
can't have been that important. I will be happy, and I will have no
spam.
In all of the following are cases in which the message matters more
to the receiver than the sender.
- Your book order isn't going to get delivered in time. (So much for
the birthday present for your mother.)
- I can't finish the presentation we were working on, I've got to fly
to my mother's deathbed--you'll have to present it tomorrow. (Sent
from your co-workers home account.)
- There's a bug in your software.
- You've got a virus.
- That message you just sent is a hoax.
- That message someone just cc'd you is a hoax.
(Note that the last three are real cases where I've sent the message
and hit a c/r system instead of the person.)
You are making the sender do work to help you be spam free. Pretty rude.
But hey, there's potential to this. Let's extend it to your phone
system. When your neighbor calls you up to invite you over for
dinner, how about first making them review the first five seconds of
each of the other messages on your machine and flag which ones are
spam? Let's get some work out of people who are trying to help you!
I don't deny that c/r will work pretty well (except against the
Nigerian type solutions, perhaps). I just don't like what it's going
to do to communication. Additionally, I think before anyone proposes
c/r, they first need to propose a good whitelisting system--and that
includes mechanism for dealing with all of the automated messages you
receive, and a standard mechanism for companies and list owners to
provide you with a simple one-click (plus local confirm via your
whitelisting software) whitelisting link.
--
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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