Re: Water tight opt-in (yet another FUSSP)

On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 12:19:12PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> I'm not sure how to call it, "legitimate spam"?  I mean bulk mail, sent
> using true names, possibly authenticated, sometimes wanted.

Do you have any reason to assume that there is a strong colleration between 'wanted' and 'having given verifiable permission'?

For this supposed FUSSP assumes that there is. I doubt that this is the case.

I agree that making the right decision on these kinds of emails is perhaps the biggest challenge for spam filters (though not necessarily the most important one). But I am not convinced that this proposal would do a better job at this than what spam filters do now, which is make an educated guess based on the reputation of the sender, the content of the email and, sometimes, the preferences and behaviour of the recipient.

Apart from this there are also, as has been mentioned, practical issues. As well as issues to do with privacy and data protection.

And, perhaps most importantly, the fact that giving certain senders direct access to many people's inboxes introduces a dangerous single point of failure that those with malicious intentions will be all to eager to try to exploit.

Martijn.

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