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Onsdag den 16. juni 2004 20:44 skrev Jonathan Gardner:
I don't see your point.
Do-not-spam lists, commercial or governmental, are relevant only in
that we can't have them until we have accountability.
USA is usually not afraid to build in accountability in their laws, no
matter if it only hits a few of those guilty at violating the laws.
It's this accountability that I'm afraid of - try to imagine that you
want to send an e-mail to 10,000 customers, and 2 of those live in a
country where you e-mail is illegal - at the end of the year, the
number of countries you can travel to, without getting arrested, will
be much smaller than when you began sending out e-mails.
I prefer a situation where you can send out e-mails, and people can
then blacklist you, whitelist you etc. SPF is an important tool for
achieving this, because all serious bulk (nonspamming) e-mailers will
publish SPF records, so that people can whitelist and blacklist very
precisely.
Currently, e-mail programs like Mozilla make it easy to mark e-mails
as spam or ham, but I'm quite sure, that future e-mails also make it
as easy to mark e-mails as blacklisted or whitelisted if the e-mails
comply with the published SPF record. Popfile has something similar
called magnets, although it doesn't know the concept of SPF, yet.
Lars.
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