On July 1, 2003 at 17:48 bob(_at_)wyman(_dot_)us (Bob Wyman) wrote:
It has been suggested that folk like the FTC should "talk with spam
filtering companies" prior to sending out large quantities of mail --
even if that mail is unquestionably "non-spam." This is easy to say.
However, it isn't obvious to me who these "spam filter companies" are.
If I was going to send out a few hundred thousand legitimate messages
sometime next week, who would I warn? How would I contact them?
Offer money and they'll volunteer themselves.
This is where it's going, like it or not, people can't do all this
work (like vetting and whitelisting self-proclaimed do-gooders.)
Not clear exactly what self-proclaimed do-gooders should get for
free.
It's changing, things are changing.
Of course, feel free to do whatever amount of work in this regard you
feel compelled to do, just don't assume everyone is interested in
having their workload cranked up arbitrarily just because someone
wants a free ride (even if that free ride is "reliability" rather than
mere hit or miss delivery.)
It seems to me that if we have a system that relies on people
talking with each other, then we need to put in place some mechanism so
that they can find each other to begin the discussions.
Money works.
* Should we have a mailing list to which people can send notices
of "intent to send" large quantities of mail?
* If you are warning someone, what form should the warning take?
Should it include a sample message? Should it include the headers that
you will be sending? Should it include information on the number of
messages that you'll send? How about providing information concerning
the time of day that the message will be sent?
* Is there a place for standards on how such warnings should be
issued? If so, who should draft and promulgate such a standard?
* Should there be third-party "judges" established that will
have the time, patience and skills to determine whether planned email
blasts are legitimate? If so, who should these judges be?
Yeah there ya go, armchair generals...
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