> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Keith Moore wrote: > > > > Authors need to be able to make coded assertions about the nature of > > a message's content that can be used as input to spam filters' > > decision-making. > > Why would a recipient trust these assertions?
if an author could be held accountable for lying. > Why would an author make an > assertion that would make their messages less likely to get through? authors would make assertions for either of two reasons: 1. they increase the liklihood that their messages would reach the intended audience because recipients have explicitly allowed it to bypass their spam filters. (because those recipients specifically said they want particular kinds of advertising. there are people who need to receive narrowly-focused advertising or find it useful) 2. there were a penalty of some kind for not making assertions in some circumstances (e.g. US laws requiring some kinds of messages to be labeled as spam or sexually-explicit) Keith _______________________________________________ ietf-dkim mailing list http://dkim.org
