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Re: [Asrg] 6. Proposals - Legal - Subject labelling (?)

Eric S. Raymond wrote:


Jon Kyme <jrk@merseymail.com>:


Is there a IETF standard for labelling commercial email?
If not, should somebody make one up - quickly?


I would be willing to draft a short RFC on spam and antispam headers.
It could describe the following things:




3. Priority: bulk





I asked Jacob Palme (author of RFC 2076 on email headers) back in May 
about this header. His reply is as follows 
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.asrg/3508/ and 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.asrg/3516/):



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Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 18:14:38 +0200

From: Jacob Palme <jpalme <at> dsv.su.se>

Subject: re: RFC 2076 and spam



The proper recipient to send this query to would be

eitherone of the IETF mailing lists for experts on

e-maillike for example IETF-822 Mailing List

<ietf-822 <at> imc.org>, which is the most active present

mailing list on e-mail standards, or a selection of the

major experts in this area. I have added such a selection

as recipients of this e-mail, to save a step.



Here is what I believe these experts are going to say to you:



The "Precedence" and "Priority" e-mail headers are not

recommended in RFC 2076, because they have been used, and

are still being used, by different e-mail systems in

different ways. Thus, if you choose to use any of these

headers, your usage may conflict with existing usage by

some existing mail systems.



Because of this, these experts will recommend that you

handle this by a new header field not yet used for any

other purpose.



Some of the more dogmatic experts may say that you should

not use header fields at all, but instead some kind of SMTP

information. I would not agree, myself, with that more

fundamentalistic view.



My understanding is that there are already a number of

spam-control e-mail headers, so one task of your group

might be to specify a standard for such headers.

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Yakov Shafranovich / PGP Key: 0x10D051E6 / www.shaftek.org

SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / www.solidmatrix.com

"I ate your Web page. / Forgive me. It was juicy / And tart on my 
tongue." (MIT's 404 Message)

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