Perhaps with all this talk of consent it is time for me to call attention
back to Choicelist.
Choicelist was not a message tracking system, it was a consent/trust system.
It was only designed to be useful for commercial email as a filter by
passing system.
Over the last week or so, I have discovered how to incorporate a trust
system for personal mailers into the existing framework.
I think it was Walt Dnes that proposed separate systems for personal and
commercial email.
As I believe Choicelist was already a good system for handling commercial
consent, I tried to figure out how to incorporate Personal consent into the
system.
Here is a rough outline of the system I came up with:
Choicelist Personal Ids can be requested.
Choicelist Personal Ids give all the options of a Commercial Choicelist
account (Multiple addresses, authentication options, Etc).
These Ids allow the user to bypass Spam filters when they contact anybody
using Choicelist to block mail.
The Choicelist MUA would have a button to report abuse of a personal
address.
These reports would be confirmed and reviewed in real time, and offending
Ids terminated.
The response cycle for complaint to listing will be as short as possible
(hopefully on the order of seconds).
The reason this reporting will be sufficient to stop abuse of personal
addresses lies in the way these Ids will be distributed.
When personal Ids are requested, only an address is required. A password is
sent to that address. Each address can be used to request a new Choicelist
personal Id every 3 months. This address is used only for the transmission
of a single Choicelist Id. Anonymity can be preserved because Ids are
transferable, and an Id can be decoupled from the address information.
Other routes to Personal Ids can be used as well, though each method should
have drawbacks that outweigh an Ids usefulness for spamming because of the
limited amount of spam that can be sent before an Id is terminated. It will
not be economical to purchase a $5 id to get maybe 20 seconds of spamming,
but a person could use a single Id indefinitely.
I believe this to be an effective way to eliminate abuse of Choicelist
Personal Ids, and Choicelist already prevents abuse of Commercial Ids. I
therefore see Choicelist as a complete consent system with few (if any) ways
to abuse it while allowing contact with strangers without any uneeded
barriers.
Choicelist requires no changes to mail sending systems, and can protect
mailers from claims of abuse.
Choicelist also provides benefits at low adoption rates, and so should be
implementable.
Choicelist is also expandable to any messaging protocol (SMS, IM, Etc.)with
little or no change to the consent structures.
I could go on, but I will not. This is as close to the “Magic Bullet” as I
think is necessary to stop spam permanently.
John Fenley
www.choicelist.com
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