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RE: [Asrg] Implicit Consent (was: Another criteria for "what is spam"...)

"Eric D. Williams" <eric@infobro.com> Sun, 08 June 2003 04:51 UTC

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From: "Eric D. Williams" <eric@infobro.com>
To: 'Vernon Schryver' <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com>, "asrg@ietf.org" <asrg@ietf.org>
Subject: RE: [Asrg] Implicit Consent (was: Another criteria for "what is spam"...)
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On Thursday, June 05, 2003 2:29 PM, Vernon Schryver 
[SMTP:vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com] wrote:
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> That is just as true of technical spam defenses as burglar alarms and
> the SEC's insider trading detection systems.  The techncial machinery
> can do a good job, but it can never be even as imperfect as we are
> (at least not until we have truely thinking and understanding computers).
> There will always be cases where the machinery gets it wrong, as well
> as cases where we can't agree on what's right.
>
> Insisting that the machinery be absolutely in-line with what we think
> is spam is equivalent to the obvious nonsense that false positives
> and false negatives will never happen.

That is precisely the issue.  Well put.  IMHO, it begs the question how will 
'impact acceptability' levels be characterized, e.g. branded, in a proposal?

-e
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