If the recipient wants to do the all or some of the filtering then he simply
sets his personal filter as none/some etc.
The pull system is not a filtering system by itself. but by virtue of the
implementation it can be efficiently used as such.
The most important thing about the pull system is that the recipients host
(ISP) has to retrieve the message, the sender cannot falsify its identity.
it has to truthfully identify itself or the message can never be retrieved.
unlike some other pull systems none of the actual message body is sent, just
enough information to identify the sender and classify the content.
Also because the sytem has a "denied" message. the sender can discover the
reason the message was not approved and make amends.
Often legitimate e-mail is filtered and lost with neither party knowing that
it has.
I personally see the system as a "stage one" filter the user then could have
their own filters to fine tune
so the pull system may say refuse all e-mail from china, a known haven for
spammers then the user sets his own filters to filter on content.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Kyme [mailto:jrk(_at_)merseymail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 25 November 2003 8:32 PM
To: Chris
Cc: ASRG
Subject: Re: [Asrg] 6. Proposals - Pull System (revisited)
4/ recipients host processes request and can apply filtering algorithms
based on recipients personal preferences
And what if recipients policy requires content / body based filtering?
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