Peter Sergeant <pete(_at_)clueball(_dot_)com> wrote:
A large thread kicked off on the subject of websites sending email on
behalf of a user - such as the 'Email this article' to a friend feature
that many online publications have. This was decried as being 'forged
spam' by Alan DeKok - the upshot seemed to be that some people believed
that any email you couldn't be absolutely sure came from a given sender
was 'forged spam',
That is an intentional mischaracterization of my position. I have
never talked about "absolute" ways of deciding a message isn't spam.
What I have said repeatedly, and you have obviously not understood,
is that if the recipient cannot tell the difference between
"legitimate" messages matching a particular characteristic, and "spam"
messages with the same characteristics, then the recipient cannot tell
the two classes of messages apart. The recipient may well then decide
to treat *all* such messages as spam.
So two key points:
a) lack of information means that decisions becomes more difficult
b) the recipient makes its own decisions about what to do
You are characterizing my position as:
a) if you can't make a perfect decision, then none is possible
b) the recipient must label spam what Alan says is spam
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Alan DeKok.
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