From: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui(_at_)plaidworks(_dot_)com>
On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 12:37 PM, John Fenley wrote:
Am I the only one here that believes that for an e-mail address to be
usefull you must be able to write it down on a piece of paper and give it
to someone? how do you dynamicaly create a consent token on a piece of
paper?
Maybe you don't. But then, there's no assumption here you need one. Perhaps
that e-mail you write down is set to go into a "these emails need to be
evaluated" folder. Perhaps it's set to do a challenge/response like current
whitelists do? You actually have a lot of flexibility -- a system like this
doesn't generate a "thing", but gives you the ability to tailor a suite of
things to your needs:
the "contact me" address generates a 24 hour token; after taht time, it's
rejected.
the address on your business card goes to a "unvalidated but trusted"
folder to be looked at -- and the user can accept, reject, send for a C/R,
discard, whitelist, whatever.
pull out a pen and make a minor change to the card, and the user now has an
address that's pre-whitelisted.
register for Apple eNews with only whitelists the apple.com domain, the
first time you get email using that registration token, it changes the
whitelist to that address, not the entire domain.
set up your amazon.com account that accepts email from all of amazon.com,
but only if the email relays in from a defined netblock.
the nice thing is a system like this can be built simple enough for MY MOM,
but can have features that people can use once they figure out they want to
use them, but which they aren't required to figure out ahead of time..
If a system works well to begin with: Stops spam, ignores mailing lists,
allows personal contact, and uses a single address with no modification. why
would you need customisation features.
In my mind customization features are a symptom of loose thinking: "I don't
know exactly how this should work, but given all these features they should
be able to get it to work."
John Fenley
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