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Re: [ietf-dkim] Not exactly not a threat analysis

2005-08-23 10:28:22
And because "abuse" is subjective (one recipient's spam is another
recipient's useful ad), you end up both legitimizing some amount of
abuse and marginalizing useful and valid behavior.

I don't see any clear signs of the convergence to mediocrity that you
are concerned about,

Well, to me the amount of mail being discarded due to false indications from
blacklists is a clear sign of mediocrity.


I'd just say that that's a sign of a poorly implemented policy :-)

If you mean that trusting someone else to decide, on behalf of a large and diverse set of users, what is good for all of those users, is a poorly chosen policy - then I emphatically agree.

The problem is that spam filtering is AI-complete and therefore cannot be
implemented perfectly. This is why I'm trying to encourage people to avoid
thinking in terms of the details of particular kinds of bad email. Looking
back at your first sentence above I notice that you have mis-identified
the abuse: it is not the fact that the message is an advertisement, it is
the fact that it has been sent to someone who didn't want it.

I don't see how I've mis-identified the abuse, as I've been consistently saying that spam is related to who _sent_ the message to the recipient. (As opposed to phishing, which is unrelated to who sent the message).

Keith
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