Re: Anticipatory whitelisting (was Re: [Asrg] Consent Proposal)

At 12:15 PM 6/27/2003 +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:

>Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> writes:
>[..]
> > D. "For each email user the MUA or the ISP maintains a whitelist..."
> >
> > MUAs don't maintain whitelists, people do. And that's the crux of
> > the problem as has been shown repeatedly, people generally don't
> > know the exact details of where the confirmation of their FTC/AT&T
> > no-call list is going to come from to put them on their
> > whitelist. Etc.
>
>That's an important problem, and it's one that the IETF (or some other
>body, such as W3C) could help to solve.
>
>Something that would be helpful would be (say) and XML specification
>for small documents that web sites could offer for email lists that
>they run.  Such documents would include information about the
>originator address of email from the list (or some other kind of
>authenticator), and information for subscribing and unsubscribing from
>the list, together with information about the list (description,
>perhaps an icon that user agents can use).
>
>I've phrased that poorly in the sense that the same idea would work
>for short-term communication agreements (such as information about a
>particular order from amazon.com, say).  Some documents could specify
>an expiry time for this use.
>
>Obviously, email clients would parse such documents, and (after
>presenting the information and receiving confirmation) would be able
>to set up the whitelist (also perhaps arranging a filter to put email
>into a special folder), and then tell the originating site about the
>desire to accept communications.  (I say "email client" on the grounds
>that most people use IE/OE, so their email client is also their web
>browser.  Obviously it would be slightly more complex if the two are
>separate, but still readily doable.)
>
>I'm not sure how the information would be passed to ISPs that offer to
>do filtering.  As you say, there are privacy issues.  However, if
>these privacy issues can (to a sufficient extent) be addressed, then a
>standardised way for the permission information to be passed to ISPs
>would be valuable.
>
>Even in the absence of spam, that would be handy, since it would make
>it easy to manage mailing lists (my MUA could show me a list, and
>could automatically filter them into folders).
>[..]

This is going hand in hand with what Bob Wyman mentioned - we need to 
define what consent is, how to express it and how to make sure that various 
mail system can communicate consent between themselves.

Yakov 

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