RE: [Asrg] Re: 6. Proposals - Pull System (revisited)

["Chris" <rebel@rebel.com.au>]

> I like Chris idea about class system and his argument that spam cannot be
> defined. However that argument should not be stretched to far.
> Most of us do throw away the same kind of mails.
>

(blush)

I would argue here that the vast majority of that thrown away e-mail was
from a forged source
so *pull* would throw it automatically for you.

And it would never get onto the network.

For short e-mails that is an insignificant saving, but a lot of e-mails tend
to have attachments, inlined images, html, virii etc. etc.

the bandwidth savings could be enormous.

> The mail client is equipped with a classification system allowing
> me to automatically delete any notifications I do not want.
> Chris suggestion looks difficult for an average user but I would implement
it as
> check boxes
> in a mail client making it very easy to use:

my rules example was purely that. an example. writing a complex set of rules
could be difficult even for experts

with a class system whole swathes of mail could be affected by one rule!

The most intuitive method of enabling those rules is a selection box system
so a person can "drill down" to a particular inclusion/exclusion.

It would also not necessarily be on the clients machine (mail client) doing
such requires that the client be aware of the class system.
I prefer if we don't try and force people to upgrade their client software
this will generate a lot of resistance
especially if it costs. which of course it will for many.

The class system would be implemented at the host server (receiver) and
could be accessed by a web page for personalisation.

That is not to say that client software could not log on, authenticate
itself and provide a better way of doing so.


> from Florida and they are spam however interested I am in sewing machines
in
> Sweden. That is why a classification system is not sufficient.

good point. but that does not break a class system

another class would be global, country specific, region specific etc..

the server could easily drop such mail with a fail code if its region was
not the correct one

There was a burst of spam some time ago from dentists, I am in Australia and
they were in the US.

What good to me is a dentist in the US?
(how much did that mailout cost them ?. I assume some scamster* had sold it
to them)


Regards
Chris

* a scamster is like a hamster but more like a rat and closer to the ground
;)



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