From: tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Feb 10, 2007, at 3:19 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > > > From: Tom Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Personally, I think HTML email should be outright discarded from > >> the start. > >> If you look at this arguement presented by the OP then it > >> reinforces the idea > >> that most ascii is ham and most html is spam. Therefore, reject > >> delivery of all > >> html based email. Or to be more succinct -- reject any MIME type > >> of alternative > >> content or html only content. That would remove probably 90% of > >> the spam in one > >> shot. > > > > Sending text/ascii e-mails may probably fit your habits and the > > ones from your contacts, but it would result in thrashing a lot of > > ham on larger userbases. > > > > Giampaolo > > > > I am clearly thinking in more revolutionary terms then what email has > been doing over the last decade of trying to accommodate every Tom > Dick and Harry that comes along with a wish list.
Well, I don't know: I don't dislike the fact that e-mail messages may be vectors of html content. The problem is not what you bring to a destination, it is the how. The problem is that all the RFC set of regulations about electonic mailing fail in definitely avoiding the use of fake addresses and the complete anonimicity of the sender to the occasional destinator. This, combined with the very low cost at which one can send spam, do result in a lot of spam. If the identity of the sender could be really trusted, I believe that it would be a lot more easy to control spam and, eventually, get rid of it. There are RFCs for message signing and the like, but they are basicly optional operations, not mandatory. I may probably have get a pessimistic view on the world, but as long as there will be a business around the spam, it will be very difficul to impose a new, sender-identity-concerned, mandatory standard on electronic mailing: there are too many economical interests around it. >From ISPs to computer resellers, everybody gains something from it. Giampaolo
