idea that someone has to decide what is spam and what is not.
No ... spam is subjective. Formaly deciding what is or is not spam
is the wrong way to proceed.
Instead, consider what happens if all mail is 'tagged'. Filtering
becomes
a more reliable mechanism since there would be standard recoginzable
tags.
Filtering could be based on whatever a user or provider chose to use as
a tagging criteria. The filtering criteria would of course include some
the measure of the trust in the tag's creator. Now ... We already have
some 'tags' in the mail headers (all of the defined fields). These
could
Be used and optionally augmented with new labels to provide useable
hooks
to filter mail.
Now this just requires:
- determination of existing fileds that might be used for filtering
- definition of new tags
- meta language for tag syntax and semantic definition
- digital signature formats and procedures to provide
authenticity and traceability of tagging
- tag creation and key distribution procedures
(perhaps including the exchange of money)
The above ideas are based partialy on the PICS effort.
PICS provided a useful tagging mechanism that is not widely adopted.
It required that 'most' web sites add a label to there home page.
Obviously a non-starter. However, for e-mail, this could be a value
added service,
That would significantly help solve spam, and mail spoofing problems.
Note, I am not a proponent of fee based solutions, but services will
be created if there is a revenue stream. There are a variety of payment
models ...
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: asrg-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
[mailto:asrg-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On
Behalf Of Barry Shein
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 4:24 PM
To: Amir Herzberg
Cc: asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Call for contributors to develop `pay per
fraudulantmessage` I-D, code
Although not unspeakable it has that "little" glitch in the
idea that someone has to decide what is spam and what is not.
The problem isn't really spam, per se, it's the volume,
particularly the volume at the recipient's (both the ISP and
end-user) expense.
Charge a small fee for all mail, which marketing can work
part of into the base rate ($12.95/mo! First 1,000 messages included!)
Then you don't have to qualitatively assess each e-mail as to
whether it is worthy of free transport or not.
(I know "did you read what I WROTE?!", YES I DID, ok?! It
still comes down to someone, somewhere having to decide what
is spam and making someone else agree to that judgement,
unless one is a govt-mandated monopoly this tends to be a bad
business model.)
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