Re: [Asrg] request for review for a non FUSSP proposal

[Ian Eiloart <[e-mail]>]

--On 23 June 2009 13:59:48 +0200 Claudio Telmon <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Ian Eiloart wrote:
>
>> However, the burden placed
>> on end users should not be a cognitive burden - most won't cope.
>
> If I understand what you mean, then IMHO this framework should pass this
> cognitive test, since the availability of tokens to correspondents (and
> spammers) should be easy to understand... well, much easier than
> failures of digital signatures, DSN, and locks on web pages, anyway...

It the behaviour of the user is required to change, then that's a bad 
thing. I've not read the spec, so I'm not judging this proposal. Just 
correcting the claim that you can't burden the use at all. You can, but 
ideally you want to do it in ways that the user doesn't notice. If your 
spec requires a user to find something in addition to an email address, 
then it needs to be extremely easy to do.

Still, we're already in a position where people are fearful of publishing 
email addresses, so this spec might alleviate that problem. But, it isn't 
fundamental to combatting spam.

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Ian Eiloart
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