Hello everyone
I've been away thinking about the spam issue for a while and
have a suggestion which may help to analyse the likely impact
of anti-spam proposals upon the way e-mail is currently used.
What I suggest is to come up with a set of scenarios which
together describe all of the different ways in which e-mail
is used and can be referred to by number.
For example:
1 Sender Alice (alice(_at_)example(_dot_)com) sends a message to Bob
(bob(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)org). Alice has previously e-mailed Bob
from that address.
2 Alice has acquired a new e-mail address (alice(_at_)other(_dot_)com).
She has previously e-mailed Bob from her other address and
is known to him:
(a) Alice has not told Bob in advance of her new address: the
first he finds out is when she sends him a message from
the new address.
(b) Alice knows her new e-mail address in advance and informs
Bob of it either by e-mail from her existing address or by
some out-of-band method. Bob might then, depending on his
MUA and anti-spam software, be able to whitelist Alice's
new address or establish prior consent for future e-mail.
... etc.
These are just a few simple examples, but given a set of
standard scenarios which describe how e-mail is used, we
could easily analyse new proposals. One could simply say
"Proposal X does not allow use case 3" or "Proposal Y
requires a change to use case 5"
Having a reasonably comprehensive set of examples would
also encourage the authors of proposals to consider the
impact of their suggestions on some of the less common
ways in which e-mail is actually used.
I am working on such a document for my degree project
and would be happy to show it to the group if it would be
of any help or interest.
Thanks
Andrew
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