RE: [Asrg] Random thought

["Damien Morton" <dm-temp-310102@nyc.rr.com>]

> From: Chuq Von Rospach [mailto:chuqui@plaidworks.com] 
> 
> On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 08:05  PM, Damien Morton wrote:
> 
> > Yeah - fundamentally, any spam solution has to be able to pass this
> > test:
> >
> > Can I publish my email address anywhere and not expect to inundated
> > with
> > spam.
> >
> 
> Which sounds awfully like a whitelist system to me. Implementable 
> today, no protocol enhancements, minimal training, and decent systems 
> can be pre--programmed to minimize the hassles to people you WANT 
> sending to you....

Im not sure that the test I proposed implies any particular system,
including whitelists. My own personal preference is a sender-pays
system, implemented at the ISP level, which would be equally effective.
Im sure others have proposals that would satisfy the test.

> the big issue on whitelists seems to be the social issue, the 
> "jumping 
> through hoops" issue. But I haven't yet seen a suggestion I thought 
> didn't require at least that much hassle/work/retraining/etc and most 
> require a lot more. So why not whitelistings as part of a 
> solution as a 
> lesser evil to all this other stuff?

Its probably a little premature to be voting on various approaches.

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