On Wednesday 18 February 2004 09:04, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:
Conceptually, my spam folder is on a similar level as my SPF folder is.
Nothing more than a place where messages end up. I have more than one
spam folder. I treat the messages in "spam15" different from those in
"spam5" and those are itself treated different than the messages in my
"SPF" folder. It is _me_ making the choice, and I have been using
fuzzy logic since my birth.
Exactly. If a message ends up in a considered-likely-to-be-spam folder it is
more likely to be unread or read later. This is what I mean by 'fuzzy
delete'.
However the sender of the mail does not know if it ends up in 'inbox',
'spf-discuss' or 'spam15'. If spam15 messages are often overlooked, this
makes delivery unreliable from the sender's point of view.
"softfail": be prepared for this email to not arrive in [whatever] days.
Maybe the message should be attached to another one (similar to what SA
can do) with a warning notice to the receiver:
Er, no - the sender does not get warning that delivery has been deprecated,
delayed, deleted or otherwise perjoratively labelled, unless you actually
reject the mail.
See? Deleting is NOT the only possibility.
Anything that reduces the probability of a mail being read is a form of 'fuzzy
deletion'. If the sender is not made aware of the mail's deprecated status,
mail delivery must be considered unreliable.