altintdev@webtv.net wrote:
>
> Rejection:
>
> Who or what part or the group initiates the rejection letter?
>
The list admin.
> How did the rejectee get on the list in the first place?
>
The list admin's automated brother.
> Does the introducer of the rejectee get rejected too?
>
Nope. Unless the list admin decides (based on feedback from
others, I would expect) that the introducer is a turkey who
has brought in fellow turkeys 10 times too often.
> If you have a decent email client you can do this personallly,
> although...
>
<knee-jerk-response>
The phrase "you can do this" is something I have heard from developers
since time immemorial. It translates to "I don't see any particular
need for this, so I haven't automated it, but you can always do
it yourself, if you want". I've heard it applied to word processors
(you can always word wrap the text yourself) and programming languages
(you can always do object-style programming in Fortran), and to
every application under the sun.
When the right sort of mechanisms become powerful enough and easy
enough to use, they spread like wildfire. You were always able to
total up columns with a calculator. But when spreadsheets became
available, people beat a path to their door.
</knee-jerk-response>
I suspect that a mechanism which totally eliminates spam, but
which allows connections to be made (by way of introductions and
shared memberships) could have a similar adoption curve. It would
use the same email addresses and email transports. It could even
use existing HTML-based email clients (so that Javascript buttons
can be added to messages). But it would add functions to the
server (possibly made accessible on HTML pages, until clients get
around to incorporating them).
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