From: asrg-admin(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org [mailto:asrg-admin(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org]
On
Behalf Of Yakov Shafranovich
Sent: July 7, 2003 17:24
To: asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: [Asrg] 3. Requirements - Non Spam must go through
Just ran across this quote from the John Gilmore of the EFF
(http://www.politechbot.com/p-04927.html):
----snip----
After years of divisive discussions, a very similar
pledge/oath/policy was
what EFF was able to come to agreement on:
"Any measure for stopping spam must ensure that all non-spam
messages reach
their intended recipients."
Perhaps none of us has yet come up with a silver bullet to solve the
problem of spam -- but it IS within our power to solve the problem of
overzealous anti-spam measures.
----snip----
I don't believe you can stop false positives -- if only because
people will have widely varying opinions on what SPAM (to them)
is. It is, however, very dangerous to allow false positives
because if anything the perceived "reliability" of the Internet
becomes compromised.
I would recommend
"Any measure for stopping spam must ensure that all messages
either reach the intended recipient, or are returned to the
sender, or the sender notified."
This is the basic principle of SMTP but many anti-spam solutions
simply discard messages or file them for the user to view later.
As Kee mentioned awhile back, this often doesn't happen.
SMTP certainly supports this architecture with minimal additional
bandwidth and anti-spam solutions could be integrated at the
SMTP level, or send notifications independently.
--
Elric Pedder
Mailtraq Development (www.mailtraq.com)
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