RE: [Asrg] criteria for spam V2
"Howard Roth" <hroth@tngi.com> Fri, 06 June 2003 03:20 UTC
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Subject: RE: [Asrg] criteria for spam V2
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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 20:08:36 -0700
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Just to stir the mud here's my take on defining SPAM: SPAM is the set of all "unwanted email" Within the set of "unwanted email" you have two major categories each can be divided up into subcategories: 1) Unsolicited email a) Bulk email * Commercial email * Non-commercial email (someone using evite to get you to a party) b) Individual email * Commercial email * Non-commercial email 2) Solicited email (not an issue as you asked for it even if it's unwanted) a) Bulk email * Commercial email * Non-commercial email b) Individual email * Commercial email * Non-commercial email Using an entity like the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) one should be able to get on a "do not send" list to stop receiving unsolicited commercial email (bulk or individual). Of course this concept only works if the marketers adhere to the rules (legislated or not). Since this method would not inhibit enough of the email traffic that should be halted to disappear, a process to do so needs to be created. This is where the bang for the buck is. It's not a matter of addressing all SPAM, but rather making it VERY difficult for unsolicited commercial email to clog the pipes. The unsolicited individual non-commercial emails to a professor or address written over a urinal should be addressed by the method of challenge and response. This of course is at the discretion of the receiver to turn it on or not. It's like someone knocking at your front door. You ask who it is and if you like the response you let them in. Otherwise they go away. I don't think there needs to be a special definition for 'bulk' other than it constitutes more than one, as most people should agree with. Howard Roth Vernon, > > Why can't we define "bulk" as "bulk" for human discourse but > let people installing spam-bulk-alarms use thresholds > appropriate for local conditions or other constraints? For > example, a reasonable threshold for a spam-bulk-alarm at AOL > might be 1000. At a vanity domain SMTP server like > Rhyolite.com, 3 is reasonable and 5 is generous because any > message that hits 5 addresses @rhyolite.com is practically > certain to be hitting 50,000,000 at AOL. > I don't think we can "define 'bulk' as 'bulk'" because the definition of "bulk" in the dictionary does not apply at all. Maybe http://www.m-w.com is the wrong place. What definition do you get when you look up "bulk". We need to define "bulk" within the context of UBE. If we can't define UBE how can we possibly hope to do any meaningful research on it? > > Ok, but building software is quite distinct from defining > offenses. Let's first define the offense of "spam" and then > decide how to approximately characterize it for our stupid > computers. Let's also be entirely clear when we are talking > about spam and when we are talking about whatever our > computers can detect or defend against. > Isn't that what we're trying to do? Did I miss something? Aren't we trying to define what is spam and what is not? Or is the definition of an "offense" something else entirely. Peter _______________________________________________ Asrg mailing list Asrg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg _______________________________________________ Asrg mailing list Asrg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg
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