Re: Principles of Spam-abatement

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David Morris wrote:
> 
> Your logic breaks over the fact that you got the message because of who
> you both know ... the ietf.org mailing list. It was not unsolicited mail
> from a party with which you have no relationship.

Do you not receive messages in your private mailbox from people who read 
the ietf list on the web? Or, from people who receive an email fwd? Or,
from people who get a hit worth pursuing in a google search? People who 
are not themselves in the ietf list and yet send messages to you.

Thus, the fact that this list acts as a trusted introducer to you is not 
the reason why I'm replying to you. I don't reply to a lot of the list's
traffic ;-)  and I read off ietf_censored ;-)

Of course, I should also care who you know and even who you are. But 
these should not be the deciding factors to _block_ email. An unsolicited 
mail from a party with which you have no relationship has the potential 
to be very important to you... even more important than from a party you 
know. The more the surprise, the more the information (Shannon).

Again, the logic is that your message's content was the deciding factor 
that made me send this reply to you.  That's why I think we need to be 
more careful in breaking email more than what it is already.

Cheers,
Ed Gerck


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