Re: 5c. Message Status - Re: [Asrg] ASRG work items

[J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:08:25 -0500 
waltdnes  <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:

> To summarize... I'd love to see a truly working "Global opt-out list"
> where I could say "No" once, and be done with bulk solicitions until
> such time as I log in and change my prefs.  What I do *NOT* want is a
> system where I have to say "No, no, a thousand times no" every day.
> Even a system that generates 1000 requests per day that you can ignore
> is still mailbombing.

I'm uncomfortable with global-queryable state for me in almost any
regard.  Too reminiscent of a slippery slope.  I'd much rather see
something at the MX level which can be queried, with the MX config
optionally storing state or forwarding the query on to the MUA/LDA 
(ie an asynchronous query).

-- 
J C Lawrence                
---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. 
claw@kanga.nu               He lived as a devil, eh?		  
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/  Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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