At 12:50 PM 6/17/2003 -0500, gep2(_at_)terabites(_dot_)com wrote:
>> A recipient should be able to create a specific-permission
> "whitelist" which lists the senders (by E-mail address) to
> which they wish to assign "special" privileges.
> Personally, I believe that this kind of approach will be much
more likely to result in useful throttling of spam.
Thanks! Obviously, I agree.
In particular, when you actually look at the spam (and viruses, and worms)
going
through the Net, the *great* majority of it is pernicious (and hard to
filter)
due to various tricks generally exploiting HTML, encoded text, and
attachments.
It's notable, I think, that very little LEGITIMATE E-mail content (and
relatively few senders) need to send E-mail containing those types of content.
In my case, I would probably enable less than 10-15% of my correspondents to
send me that type of stuff.
[..]
Can ISPs on the list provide some statistics on percentage of legimitate
email coming in as HTML, attachments, base64, etc.
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