On May 2, 2003 at 10:25 scott(_at_)spamwolf(_dot_)com (Scott Nelson) wrote:
It's not clear to me that spam goes away just because it's pull,
though it might make it easier to track down the (ir)responsible.
For example, Suppose you got an email that said;
"You have a message from bob(_at_)example(_dot_)com waiting for you at
http://example.com/bob.message.127";.
When go to the web page, it's an ad for wonder widgets.
In that case, I think most would still classify it as spam
even though you have to go to a web site and "pull" the message.
That's mixing pull w/ push and the push continues to be a problem,
don't do that!
Or, better, if it were to evolve like that one would have some way to
verify that the new msg msg is real and is for something you've
actually signed up for by comparing to your own list.
Otherwise, sure, miscreants could just flood your mailbox with "you
have a message at somewhere.com (Hi Kee)" and you're back where you
started more or less.
I'd think you either poll or maybe "what's new" gets sent via a
protocol other than email, like maybe your own pull "area" which you
give the others you've signed up for permission to leave a "you have
new mail" msg on, and your MUA checks that whenever you fire it up or
ask for it to be checked.
Or maybe you just go to a web site and read the new msgs like a lot of
lists currently, plus or minus improvements in readablity such as
syndicating via RSS/XML so you can use a more sophisticated reader
program than most browsers provide.
I dunno, it's nice to get the newspapers delivered to my house but I
really don't need the guy to knock and knock at 5AM until I come down
and take it from his hands if you get my gist.
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