Re: 0. General - Spam survey [was Re: [Asrg] Help with academic research survey.]

["Mark E. Mallett" <mem@mv.mv.com>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:55:27PM -0500, Alan DeKok wrote:
> Markus Stumpf <maex-lists-spam-ietf-asrg@Space.Net> wrote:
> > We receive enough complaints about mailinglists of customers that
> > are strictly double opt-in (and where I have logs that they have confirmed
> > per eMail) from people that "cannot remember having subscribed".
> ...
> > Not having enough brain or not being able to track which lists someone
> > has subscribed to is not a valid base for marking a message spam, IMHO.
> 
>   Going back to the protocols (rather than social issues) this problem
> could be addressed by some kind of token exchange.  The difficulty
> lies in desiging a system which is accountable to, and believable by
> both parties.

I agree.  The problem may be that people forget, but the solution
isn't to rant against those people.  It's to realize that that is a
fact of life, and make it so people don't have to use their memories;
but to rely on tools, records, and methods that (hopefully) come
into play without always having to specifically be aware of them.

How's that for a content-free observation :-)

mm


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