I think in this case we all know what they're doing and you've hit it
dead on. They're targeting Gmail and they're not really interested in
anyone else.
On 2022-07-30 11:16, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote:
I'm not an American, so it's basically "not my fairy-tale" (as we say
in our
country), but I can't stop wondering at the use of the word "label" in
the
proposed regulation.
I already asked (in a bit sarcastic tone) in one of the previous
emails, what
is a "label" in context of email in general. Because there's simply no
such
thing: if you look at email protocols, or operation of server software,
there's no such thing as "label". Spam filters may add a *header*
indicating
that a message is spam, but is a header a "label" or not? And if the
spam
filter does not add a header, but just directly moves the message
(using
sieve for example) to spam *folder* on the server? Is a *physical
folder in
the filesystem* a "label" or not?
"Labels" per se exist only in some implementations of MUAs, most
notably in
Gmail web interface. So either the regulation is targeted particularly
at
Google, or it's authors never saw any other email system than Gmail and
imagine that a "label" is some universal thing (which wonders me,
because
don't they have their internal email systems at Congress or
governmental
institutions?)
Another question is, how are the operators supposed to distinguish
political
messages from non-political ones? The only reasonable method that comes
to
mind is submitting by political senders in advance to the operators a
list
of sender addresses that shouldn't be filtered. Operators can then
whitelist
them.
But can't compiling a list of such sender be considered some form of
"applying a label"? In that cse the regulation becomes
self-contradictory:
in order to comply with the regulation and "not apply a label" to
political
messages, you have first to "apply a label" to senders of those
messages, a
label that says "don't apply any label to messages from this sender".
Just some doubts that - at least for me - show that this entire
proposal
doesn't make any sense.
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