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Re: [Asrg] Re: bounces, and anti-spam principles

2007-01-27 11:31:06
On 2007-01-25 19:32:11 -0600, gep2(_at_)terabites(_dot_)com wrote:
[comment #6]

[how users configure their whitelist rules]

The problem being that out of the 60,000 seats here, perhaps less
than 10 of them are able to competently configure a set of rules like
what you have.  

That's a software implementation issue, not an inherent 
problem in the approach.  I envision a button to click on 
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I guess that's the main reason why your ideas aren't met with wild
enthusiasm here. You "envision" that this would be simple to build and
to use, but it's not even clear that you have even built a prototype
which you use yourself, much less deployed the system for "ordinary
users", which aren't quite sure what an "HTML mail" is, and have never
heard about an "ActiveX component".

that simply says "allow E-mails like this from the same 
sender in the future" and where the software will open the 
keyway JUST enough to allow that type of message if seen 
again from that sender.

So Uncle Bob will see that a mail from Aunt Matilda was blocked because
it contained an "executable attachment". Since he wants to get mail from
Aunt Matilda (and Aunt Matilda is a nice lady, she wouldn't send him
anything bad, would she?) he clicks on "allow E-mails like this from the
same sender in the future". Oops!

How that recognition is accomplished, whether by something crude like
simple GREP-type scanning, or something brain-damaged like RegEx
pattern matching,

You know what the two middle characters in "grep" stand for, do you?

        hp

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