On Dec 20 2004, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:52:59AM +1000, Laird Breyer wrote
This is intriguing. While it isn't clear that having a specific
definition of spam is actually useful for blocking it, this policy does
have implications on the solution set.
Would it be accurate to say that ASRG is interested in Z-mail
prevention solutions where Z-mail is a label for some set of messages,
and Z-mail can be taken to be spam?
If that's the case, then any solution of interest would also apply to
other labeling problems, e.g. ham-prevention. Furthermore, such a
restriction on the solution set would likely exclude some economic
solutions, as these solutions don't usually make sense for
ham-prevention say, and any solution the ASRG would be interested in
would have to work for Z-mail, whatever Z-mail turns out to be.
What am I missing here?
The thing that you may be missing is that "one size does not fit all".
One man's spam is another man's ham. My idea of spam is different from
someone else's. That's why end-user-control of some sort is so
desirable, so that end-users could stop (block/reject/filter/whatever)
the email that *THEY* don't want. Rather than "blocking spam", the
problem is better stated as "blocking unwanted email". Each person has
their own set of wants.
Not necessarily. Some people do not have the luxury of defining spam
as that which they don't want. For example, children whose mail is
monitored, or employees whose mail is filtered centrally.
There are some classes of solutions which don't allow end-user
control. For example, in proposals where postage or a bond is
required for sending mail, the recipient is only indirectly involved
with the definition of spam. Instead, such a user can indicate a price
for accepting mail, but if the sender is rich or at least has access
to some other source of funding, then the recipient must accept the
spam together with some form of compensation.
--
Laird Breyer.
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