At 11:26 AM 4/20/2003 -0700, you wrote:
OK this is a research group, how about someone tries an experiment?
<SNIP>
After running the experiment for some time the correspondents who did not
reply to the challenge are contacted, are told about the experiment and
asked to fill in a survey on why they did not respond, one of the questions
being how many such responses they have been presented with in the past.
I don't think that this would be a fair comparison and I don't believe the
results would be useful.
Why? Most challenge - response systems are admittedly a pain to use
currently. And the reason why they are a pain is that the only way they
are currently implemented is either by sending an e-mail back and asking
the user to do something (such as reply or click on a link). This is
typically not done in an easy to do fashion.
However, I believe that if there were a protocol set up for challenge -
response systems the challenge - response mechanism could be built directly
into the mail clients. Because of this, it would be possible for the
challenge-response mechanism to be much more intuitive and much less
cumbersome than it is today. Any challenge response system test such as
you just described would short change the entire challenge-response
concept. Again, if the challenge / response system were built directly
into the mail client, it would be much more intuitive and less cumbersome
than the systems that are currently in place.
-Art
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Art Pollard
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