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7b. Best Practices - Mail Administrators (was RE: [Asrg] AOL vs the Internet -- Are they opting out?)

2003-07-27 17:37:54
At 08:01 PM 7/27/2003, asrg(_at_)bobf(_dot_)frankston(_dot_)com wrote:
.......
What I will respond to is your statement that I am somehow going through a
lot of extra work to sneak past my ISP. That is offensive and utterly wrong.
My ISP is whimsical and changes the email addresses of its millions of
subscribers whenever it decides to -- continental cablevision ==> Mediaone
==> JoesDryCleaningAndInternetService => ATTBI => Comcast. They also have
problematic policies when I want to send email other than via their approved
wires and I accidentally connect via my neighbor's access point or through
the wrong path on my Dual WAN they just won't deal with me. The whole point
of the Internet is to avoid being at the mercy of benevolence of those that
demand to do me good.
.......

Quote from this reply:
.......THEY ALSO HAVE PROBLEMATIC POLICIES.....

This is something that the ASRG can address by developing BCPs that then can be promoted to the rest of the Net. There isn't much else we can do beside that aside from taking these issues into account when evaluating solutions. I believe that was already addressed in the "Technical Considerations" document, section 4.2, "Burden":

"Effective mechanisms must place some kind of burden on senders and receivers. Hence a challenge for spam control mechanisms is to require enough of a burden to be effective, but not so much that it makes email unacceptably painful to use."

Within the consent framework, I have to agree with others that the ISPs should allow users to exchange consent information. This would also be part of a BCP.

Yakov

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