Jesse, may I chime in that discussion, focusing on one point: you mentioned you've found that most people are repelled by the TMDA idea. Is this anecdotal evidence, or did you do an actual study or do you know of any studies other people might have done?
When you say "TMDA concept", which aspects of that concept do you mean: do you mean the C/R protocol, the blacklisting, the whitelisting, the keyword addresses or the combination of all that? What is particularly repelling? I was contemplating a system that uses only a small subset of TMDA features; and I'm wondering if it wouldn't be as efficient as TMDA in preventing spam and helping people prioritize their email. In particular, suppose you decided *not* to rely on sender verification (which isn't available anyway) in any way whatsoever. Rather, you require that all mail you read be sent to a keyword address. Conversely, all email sent to your public address would be challenged - unlike the way TMDA is currently used, however, a successful response would also result in a keyword address being issued to the responder that they must use for future communication if they want to avoid repeated challenges. In short, in such a scheme that would be no need for whitelisting or blacklisting whatsoever; the system would be entirely token-based: if you hold a token from me (a keyword address) you can send me email. If all you have is my public email address, you have to get a token first. Whenever I want someone to send me mail (my family, my students, my boss, a mailing list) I issue a keyword address for that particular purpose. Of course, such a system would require extensive database/mail client support to make sure I can issue (and if necessary, revoke) keyword addresses quickly and to ensure that I can quickly sort my email based on the likely sender. - Godmar On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:45:41 -0400, Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > years, but we have less than 100 TMDA users. (We've > found that most people are repelled by the TMDA concept, > despite the fact that it WORKS, and WORKS WELL.) > _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
