Klarinet Archive - Posting 000098.txt from 2006/02

From: Roger Hewitt <rogerclarinet@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Email 'postage'
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:21:15 -0500


--- Gary Smith <gary622@-----.com> wrote:

> I think if spam can ever be defeated or slowed down, it will be
> through a transition to a system that verifies the sender. In other
> words, it will be up to the sender to provide verification through
> their server, NOT up to the e-mail provider to charge at the gate and
> let anything that pays through.

To me one great problem is that one man's spam is another man's useful
information (to mangle a well-known quotation). Obviously phishing is
not wanted by anyone, but some may find loan offers useful (some are
genuine advertising, but how do you know which are not ...) and I've
had "e-magazine" emails (to which I chose to subscribe) labelled as
spam by one provider (presumably by some software which decided it was
advertising - if I chose "strong" spam-filtering I would never have
received it!
So how do you define spam: there is no universally acceptable
definition in exactly the same way as junk-snail-mail has no easy
definition.
Postage on emails is thus not a solution at all.

Roger H

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