At 9:04 AM +0100 4/24/03, Jon Kyme wrote:
I appreciate your point that a system implementing this sort of approach
probably has to track *identifiers*. The cheapness of identifiers (email
addresses, whatever) is a feature (strength / weakness - depends on your
p.o.v.) of the current system.
I'm not sure that this is a fatal objection to all and any permission-based
proposals, in-band or (as MKD suggests) OOB. I've got a bad feeling that it
The lack of persistent identifiers for end-users is not currently a
major problem for whitelisting systems. It does however, make
blacklisting systems fairly useless. We discourage our users from
blacklisting spam senders. Our experience is that they will never
see that email address again, and having it in the block list just
slows down the processing.
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Kee Hinckley
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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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