Re: Unsubscribing and HTML e-mail? (was: Blocked)

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techpubs -at- genek -dot- com>]

This is exactly the method I use in my personal email.  When I subscribe to
something, I enter its address/domain into a "valid address" list that overrides
all the spam blocking filter's rules.  The one difference is that the first time
an
unknown email arrives that meets the filter's rules for spam, the filter
displays
it so I can decide for myself whether it's something I want to tag as "valid"
before it proceeds to delete it and block subsequent emails from the same
address/domain from that point on.

As far as business-to-business marketing messages being "legitimate," unless
I specifically signed up to receive them, as far as I'm concerned they're spam,
and I let the filter kill, blacklist and bounce them back to sender.  People who
send out unsolicited marketing emails and tell themselves they're not spammers
are just deluding themselves.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>

> Balderdash. You're right about how real spam abuses the unsubscribe
> device, but that is no reason for spam filters to have such an
> assumption built in. The goal of spam filtering is to distinguish
> between legitimate messages (in our case business-to-business marketing
> messages) and crapola. As any legitimate marketing message is required
> to have instructions for unsubscribing or opting out, you cannot use the
> existence of such instructions as a scoring criterion. That's just
> incompetent software design.



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