RE: [Asrg] Random thought

[Jason Hihn <jhihn@paytimepayroll.com>]

Whoops. I forgot the obligatory:

Adoption:
10%: who cares? (Assuming) My server supports it (it has to for me to use
it), I can benefit right NOW using client-side filters. The sender needs to
know nothing, nor have anything special to send to me. I have immediate
benefit.
50%: ditto
90%: ditto

;-)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: asrg-admin@ietf.org [mailto:asrg-admin@ietf.org]On Behalf Of Jason
> Hihn
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:42 AM
> To: ASRG
> Subject: [Asrg] Random thought
>
>
> What if we assigned a bucket in the email address?
>
> joe[spam]@paytimepayroll.com
>
> Consent expression is then indicated by the bucket [spam]
> So if I wanted to give a contest (to win a BMW) my email (because they
> require it) my email, I'd on the fly assign BMW's email to their
> own bucket,
> I can specify joe[bmw] when registering to win a BMW on a website.
>
> Then, my mail client can give it it's own folder, or swash it
> into a default
> inbox according to my rules. It can create folders as it sees email (or if
> spammers abuse it, we can manually set up a folder, and trash anything not
> going to that folder)
>
> The big problem is that [bucket] can be stripped off. So solve
> this problem
> joe@ is to be considered invalid. Some bucket must be specified.
> joe[default] would be one such example(though poorly choosen) Or joe could
> set his [BMW] bucket to be his default inbox in his mail client.
>
> This will also allow us to track who sells our info. If I start
> getting mail
> sent to the BMW bucket and not from the sponsors, I know they
> sold my info.
> After the contest, I can trash anything automatically sent to that bucket.
>
> This makes evading spam rather easily, while still retaining your email
> server and provider.
>
> Comments?
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