On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Wietse Venema <[email protected]> wrote: > Alessandro Vesely: >> On 23/Sep/10 21:16, John R. Levine wrote: >> > All of this emphasis on complex designs for MLMs strikes me as a waste >> > of time, since it's a tiny corner of the mail space that has not >> > historically been a vector for abuse, and shows no sign of becoming one. >> > >> > That's why my advice is that lists should sign their mail, which is >> > easy and at worst harmless, and we're done. >> >> According to Murray's definition, MLMs include ESPs and email >> marketers, which originate a volume of traffic and have historically >> been a vector for abuse. Indeed, except for subscription mechanisms >> and deployed software, most of the problems are similar. > > It may be productive if we distinguish between two-way discussion > lists where participants send mail to the list, and one-way broadcast > lists where only the owner (or their agent) sends mail to the list. > > The difference between these is to be large enough that the concepts > do not generalize that well.
Since I work for an ESP, I agree with this statement. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
