Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote:
Claudio Telmon wrote:
Rich Kulawiec wrote:
A brief check of my own procmail config indicates that I'm on over
500 of
these -- the overwhelming majority of which are role addresses such as
those specified in RFC 2142. A secondary check indicates that about 3/4
of those are shared with one or more other people, which means I'd have
to work out some kind of "shared consent" for several hundred addresses.
That's not feasible in a reasonable period of time, especially since
neither the addresses nor the pool of people they're shared with are
static.
Well, I suppose that most of those mailboxes shouldn't be
consent-enabled anyway. Addresses like "abuse" or "postmaster" are meant
to be contacted by anybody that needs it, right? The same for the
No !
I'm just saying that RFC 2142 are not meant to be consent-enabled.
Anybody should be able to contact these addresses, but:
- other (antispam) protections may well be enabled;
- other shared addresses may be meant to be "for closed groups" or
consent-enabled
official contact addresses of companies.
In fact, at our domain, few of these kind of adresses aren't protected.
Most of them are adresses of the kind "everybody in the engineering
department" (addresses which are of internal use only) "butterfly
research workgroup" (a closed group working on some particular subject)
and so. These are adresses which *are* protected and the concept of
consent-enable is materialized by checking if the SMTP client sending
messages to is in some known network or if the connection was
authenticated. But nothing prevents that this kind of consent should be
expanded. Either way, in an organisation like the ours, users couldn't
understand that the same consent system used for individual addresses
couldn't be used for collective addresses.
This is a very interesting case. I'll have to think at the implications
of it.
--
Claudio Telmon
claudio(_at_)telmon(_dot_)org
http://www.telmon.org
_______________________________________________
Asrg mailing list
Asrg(_at_)irtf(_dot_)org
http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg