[Asrg] Actions and Words

["John Fenley" <pontifier@hotmail.com>]

From: "Yakov Shafranovich" <research@solidmatrix.com>
> >From: "John Fenley" <pontifier@hotmail.com>
> >
> >Nobody had talked much about opt-in/opt-out issues on this list, but they 
> >were a major part of the forum. solving this will be important. I humbly 
> >re-propose choicelist as a way of managing opt-in/opt-out status...not as 
> >an ultimate answer as it is proposed, but as a starting point to 
> something >better.
>
> The underlying problem here is that we haven't defined the problem 
> properly. Also in many ways fighting spam is like fighting a war - you need 
> to learn the weapons of your enemy. I would suggest that we analyze how 
> spam works, why it works, before trying to come up with something to stop 
> it. Eric's post is a start.
I have aready answered those questions to my own satisfaction, I have my own 
internal defenition of spam, and my solution fits a part of it perfectly.