On May 26, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Hector Santos wrote: > Steve Atkins wrote: > >> In my experience with traditional discussion MLMs (which is the situation >> we're talking about) if I trust the MLM, I generally don't care about >> who the participants are. > > If by traditional, you mean the members are vetted with subscription > and confirmation, then this tends to be true. But when not, when the > list or any group forum is anonymous in nature, history has told us > its get corrupted with junk and most people tend to dislike it.
In that case the reputation of the MLM is poor, and I don't want to receive email from it. I still don't care about who the participants are. The idea that people might sign up for a mailing list full of junk, and hope that their spam filters / reputation engine will magically pull the occasional gem out of it seems pretty unlikely. And that's the premise behind there being value in tracking the reputation of original authors in the case of their email being re-sent by a MLM. Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
