Re: ADV: (was Re: [Asrg] Article - New anti-spam proposal in the House of Representative)

At 11:52 PM -0400 5/25/03, mathew wrote:
>The point of ADV is it would let me block all commercial mail from 
>entities not in my whitelist.
>
>Which would be just fine by me.

This assumes that there is a reasonable whitelist system out there 
that doesn't block mail from N-different addresses at your favorite 
vendor, but does block mail from forged addresses (say 
support@microsoft.com?) at the same vendor.  And it needs an easy 
protocol for clicking on a link on a web site and whitelisting that 
site.  And it needs to be understandable and usable by the general 
public.  (And even then it doesn't do much good for those of us who 
regularly get mail from people we don't know.)

I've said before.  If everyone is going to be depending on 
whitelists--someone should start figuring out how a mailing list 
and/or web site communicate with the whitelist software on your 
machine.  (E.g. 
whitelist:domain=amazon.com,localpart=bounce-[username]-[domainname]... 
or whatever).

>
>Though I think adding non-internationalized text to the subject line 
>is a dumb way to implement it; it should be a new header.

Unfortunately, the darling of the internet--Outlook Express, can't 
filter on headers other than the subject.
-- 
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/          Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/   Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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