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Re: [PLUG] Re: TMDA (was Re: whitelisting for POP3)
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On Wednesday 24 March 2004 11:28 pm, Mark M. Hoffman wrote:
> I
> can appreciate the "it's obnoxious" argument; so what can be done to
> make it less obnoxious?
>
>
> But first, exactly what about it is obnoxious?
Those of us who use email for business or things other than just personal
correspondence get a fair amount of ¨unsolicited¨ legitimate mail from people
we may not now know, but who we may want to know. Sometimes we spend a lot
of money and effort to get these people to contact us. After potentially
succeeding in that effort the last thing we want to do is tick someone we are
trying to reach off by placing barriers to contact.
It gets really obnoxious when applied to list mail, because lists are
configured in lots of ways, many of which preserve the original sender. If a
lot of people subscribe to a challenge/response system on a large list, then
anyone who posts gets a bunch of challenges in response -- often from people
he has never heard of.
The insidious thing about spam is that it can obfuscate legitimate mail,
resulting in overlooked important messages. Then again, paper junk mail has
started to do the same. Who hasn't tossed an important piece of mail that
got stuck between some junk flyer? The paradox of easing communication -- be
it spam or mail merge -- is that it results in an overload of communication
that makes it harder for the recipient to get important messages.
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