On Fri, 2004/10/22 (MDT), <ho(_at_)alum(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu> wrote:
When we began this work, I thought that the per account customization
for HTTP was very important, but not worth screaming about. In the
intervening years HTTP has become more important to daily life, and I
think the issue is as important as for SMTP. I would really like to
see some ideas on how to get this specified and set into standards
as we move forward with SMTP.
I think this plays well with P rules or similar standard to express
filtering rules.
Most ISPs cannot offer rich customizations today because they would have
to invest in a custom interface to support/maintain those customizations.
If we give the world a common filtering language, the ISP can buy an
off-the-shelf rules management tool and have users specify their
preferences on the web (auto-converted to [P] rules that ISP's servers
understand).
Alex.