At 3:07 PM -0600 4/10/03, John Fenley wrote:
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com>
At 3:22 AM -0600 4/10/03, John Fenley wrote:
Administrator maintained public "choicelist"(functions as a
whitelist, and a blacklist) database:
Who administers this? And who can read it?
Each entry in the database is maintained by the creator of that entry.
anyone can read it because it is a public database.
I'm not asking who adds entries to it. I asked who administers the database.
Database curator:
Again. What's the scope of this job? Per-ISP?
2. protect the security of the database against unauthorized changes.
How are changes authorized?
By password, then by password reset, then by an actual person
contacting the creator using the contact info they give.
You skipped the scope. Who is paying this person's salary?
4. give id# of the list's entry to subscribers so they can recieve
the list, or use a system where they send the first message to
subscribe to the list.
These ID #'s are unique world-wide? Who guarantees that?
Yes they are unique. there is one central database that that
generates a unique number when an entry is created.
I'm sorry. Are you proposing one single global address that is run
for free (you said this was non-commercial so that it would be better
adopted), and into which every user puts their email address, their
postal address, their password and a list of every single email
address that they allow to send them email? And further did you not
say that if I input an address into this database, I get out a list
of all people who can send email to that address? So in other words,
if I subscribe to the porn video volunteers mailing list--anyone can
find out?
Am I misunderstanding you?
--
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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