FC: The case for a "trusted sender" program to stamp out spam

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:46:16 -0500
From: Neil Schwartzman <neil () petemoss com>
To: declan () well com
Subject: Why a Trusted Sender Program benefits all E-Mail Constituencies

Declan,

Thought you might be interested in this take on the new TRUSTe 
anti-spam initiative.

Ted is, as his site says, "... an advocate for the responsible use of 
e-mail, Ted Gavin is the primary author of RFC-3098, "How to 
Advertise Responsibly Using Internet E-Mail and Newsgroups - or, How 
NOT To 'Make Enemies Fast!", a document produced by the Internet 
Engineering Task Force and published in April 2001. He is an Officer 
and Director of the SpamCon Foundation, a California Non-Profit 
organization dedicated to the preservation of e-mail as a viable 
communication medium. He is also an Advocate Member of the Trusted 
Sender Advisory Board."

Why a Trusted Sender Program benefits all E-Mail Constituencies
http://member.newsguy.com/~tedgavin/html/to_what_benefit.htm

BTW: I was just appointed pro tem Chair of CAUCE.ca - if any of your 
Canadian readers are interested in getting involved in the 
legislative fight VS spam, please have 'em head over to 
http://cauce.ca and get signed up for our discussion list. I expect 
we will have an easier time of it up here than you folks have had 
with the DMA leading congress critters by the nose, but perhaps I am 
being overly optimistic. Anyway - we need grassroots help and support 
- all are invited to the dance.

best regards,
-- 
Neil Schwartzman
Pete Moss Publications,
Industry & Trade Journals
<http://spamnews.com><http://virus-news.com><http://spamflames.com><http://petemoss.com>
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