Re: waiting on message notifications

>Jason Woofenden <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I've been thinking about what personal benefit I would get (as an email user)
>> from IM2000. And how I would want my MUA to behave.
>> 
>> I would want my MUA to wait a certain amount of time (maybe 2 or 6 hours)
>> before acknowledging (to the sending message store) notifications from servers
>> it does not recognize.
>
>That implies you want your MUA to automatically retrieve messages without
>asking, even when you don't know the sender or notifier.  That's fine, but if
>that's what you want, why would you want the delay?

1) because I think that in many cases, with a delay, the sender will have a
chance to get on the blacklist I subscribe to.

2) in the case of a hijacker, the sending store might not be there anymore
(e.g. because it was discovered and fixed, or because it's on a dynamic IP.)


>> After this time period it would check the notifications against a blacklist
>> (at which point I think they would probably be on the blacklist.)
>
>Perhaps you mean this, instead:  if you receive a notification of a new
>message from an unknown sender/message store, hang on to the notification
>without acknowledging it for a period of time.  Then check the sender/message
>store against whatever blacklist(s) exist.  If the sender/message store is on
>the blacklists as a spammer, silently drop the notification and ignore further
>notifications about that message or perhaps that sender.

Exactly what I meant. Sorry this was not clear to you.


>Only if the sender is /not/ on the blacklists, then prompt you to determine
>whether to retrieve a summary of the message (or perhaps the entire message).

Right. Except personally I prefer to have my MUA automatically download stuff
at this point. Bandwidth is cheap at my current location. I'd rather waste that
than time waiting for download latency. I really like the idea of being able to
completely ignore senders, so they can't tell if they have a correct email
address for me or not, but when you request the summary, they know, and I might
as well grab the entire message, (assuming my MUA can do it in the background.)


Best regards,

      - Jason