Re: proposal for built-in spam burden & email privacy protection

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On Mon February 9 2004 18:57, Dean Anderson wrote:

 > The IEMMC was formed in May of 1997 between Cyberpromotions and AGIS
 > and some others. Its goal was to encourage voluntary spam labeling
 > and opt-out lists, and to work out a compromise on spam between the
 > advertising and technical community.

...which must necessarily consist of something MUCH better than labeling 
and opt-out, but that was pretty much their limit.  Opt-out is a 
non-starter, so to speak.  It was pretty clear to me that the IEMMC was 
basically a PR ploy, to delay any real action.  IMNSHO, AGIS had no 
intention whatsoever of disconnecting, reining in, imposing conditions 
on, or in any other way not being a haven for spammers, so long as 
being a spamhaven was profitable.

 > One might say this is ancient history, but in fact, the IEMMC
 > position on spam was practically legislated in the CAN-SPAM act,

Yup.  Which means not that SPAM is in the CAN, but that spammers CAN 
SPAM.  They just have to do a few things that the anti-spammers have 
recognized as useless (if not worse) for well over ten years.

Long story short, CAN-SPAM is trying to pull the same wool over the 
public's eyes, that the IEMMC was trying to pull over the anti-spam 
community's.  Unfortunately, John Q. Public can't tell the fine worsted 
wool it's being sold as, from the cheap polyester it really is....

Disclaimer: this doesn't mean that hacking Cyberpromo was "right"!  I'm 
not one of your "radical abusers"....

-- 
Dave Aronson, Senior Software Engineer, Secure Software Inc.
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