On Jun 5, 2006, at 4:20 PM, David Nicol wrote:
I had lunch last week with some guys who send "responsible e-mail
advertising" and got a glimpse of the situation from their points
of view. If you had a list of, say, every potential coca-cola
drinker at AOL, switching to a DATAFIRST sequence would allow you
to put the ad in first and then chase it with the whole mailing
list, easing your conflicts with the recipient postmasters who
currently
have to deal with multiple open connections from you. The bulk of
the transferred data is the vast list of recipients, perhaps millions.
Unsolicited email based upon a list of potential customers does not
sound like "responsible e-mail advertising." Who gets the message
must not be based upon exposing an individual's profile of filter
settings, whether or not an ESP reaps some monetary advantage.
Dynamically negotiating a long list of recipients based upon content
would also be a privacy concern, and would be counter productive at
abating abuse. Unsolicited email must not be allowed under any
efficacy guise.
-Doug
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