Subject: [Asrg] Terminology...

From: "Eric D. Williams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:48:05 -0500

Vernon (or anyone who's interested);

Are you volunteering to develop the first-cut of a terminology draft?  I think 
this type of run at a set of defining terms has been mentioned (at least by me 
;) a couple of times.  Dropping the 'spam' one which I think is currently under 
development still leaves plenty of fodder to pick through.  Brad introduced a 
list of terms as well in an earlier message.

There is also the issue of types of 'spammer' tactics/methods.  It appears we 
have a wealth of experience with different types but no basis reference that we 
can share, that would also appear to be a worthwhile endeavor.

On Friday, March 28, 2003 4:25 PM, Brad Templeton [SMTP:[email-masked]] 
wrote:
There are many components in the various definitions of spam out there, and
proposals can be created to deal with these sub-components, and thus become
tools for people to build tools to attack their vision of what spam is. 
 Amongst
those sub components are:
		Bulk(volume) vs. Person to Person
		Subscribed (Explicitly, directly solicited) vs. Unsubscribed
		Reply vs. Origination
		Existing Relationship vs. Stranger
These are all components of spam definitions which we can work with without
laying down a spam definition.   Some other components much harder to define 
are:
		Parameters of implicit solicitation
		Degrees of existing relationship

On Monday, March 31, 2003 6:58 PM, Vernon Schryver 
[SMTP:[email-masked]] wrote:
> We need clear and concise definitions for
>
8<...>8
>
>   - opt-out
>
>   - unconfirmed opt-in
>
>   - super-duper-ultra-double-nasty-impossible-to-do-confirmed-opt-in
>      or whatever the bulk mail senders are currently calling the
>      only sane way to do opt-in
>
>   - consent
>
>   - false positive
>
>   - false negative
>
>   - filter
>
>   - DNS blacklist/blocklist
>
>   - to forge (as in header or envelope "forgery" with the dictionary
>      definition of "forgery")
>
>   - mismatach between envelope or header From: and reverse DNS name
>      of SMTP client (what many people mistakenly call "forgery")
>

-e

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