Attached is a proposed mechanism to communicate consent to receive. The idea is to make mailing list subscription to be a matter of empirical observation rather than he-said she-said accusation. The idea is to augment the standard callback loop mechanism with information that allows this to be formalized. I had previously exchanged some email with Yakov on combinging this with his challenge response draft. I do not like this idea for several reasons. The first problem I see is that C/R is inherently controvertial, a lot of people myself included see the challenges as being spam, so the mechanism merely transfers the burden of spam rather than eliminating it. The second issue is speed of deployment, I see no reason to tie consent to receive concepts to C/R. The deployment constituencies are completely different. The third problem is that there is a pathetic but nevertheless aggressively littigated patent that lays claim the C/R idea - even though the MIT AI lab use and the Bornstein use predate it by years.
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