Historically all discussions on the definition of spam in the group
have not come to a fruitful conclusion. According to the technical
considerations document, the term "unsolicited bulk email" is used
as a working definition.
Alow me to second that sentiment. It's not very useful to talk about
dealing with spam since the definitions people use range from
"multiple substantially similar items of unsolicited commercial e-mail
sent to more than N people in less than M time" to "any mail I don't
want" and everyone knows that his definition is right and all the rest
miss the point.
Any anti-spam technical proposal should start by saying as
specifically as possible what abuse it's intended to prevent or
combat. The various LMAP proposals, for example, appear to me to be
intended to detect forged domains in e-mail return addresses.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet
for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
--
John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 330 5711
johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com, Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner,
http://iecc.com/johnl,
Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
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