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Re: [Asrg] New take on emerging idea. (yet another C-R system?)

2003-04-10 14:34:51
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:57:43 -0400 
Kee Hinckley <nazgul(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com> wrote:
At 12:52 PM -0700 4/10/03, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

pull out a pen and make a minor change to the card, and the user now
has an address that's pre-whitelisted.

If you can do that in your head, then the spammer can certainly figure
it out.  No?  

Let's say its an unstandardised plus address ala bubba+oddword(_at_)domain;
trivial to amend on a business card or postit note.  But, still spammer
abusable as there will be a tendency for people to pick the same/similar
keywords.  So the MUA filters messages to that address into a custom
folder for not-totally-unknown-but-not-yet-friends mail.

Also, keep in mind the sender's system.  When you give people an
address, they have this nasty habit of actually remembering it.  They
put it in their address book, they put in their paper note taking
system.  They put it in their database.  If I need to shunt them to a
permanent address, I need an easy way to do it. Kind of like HTTP's
permanent redirect.  (And keep in mind that for reasons that escape
me, nobody has bothered using that to update anyone's bookmark's
file.)

Address shunting/rewriting is a good point, but one I don't see as
handleable without direct MUA support.

-- 
J C Lawrence                
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