- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:27:25 -0500
- To: Phil Archer <phil.archer@icra.org>
- Cc: public-quatro@w3.org
* Phil Archer <phil.archer@icra.org> [2005-01-06 14:17-0000] > > The idea of adding a label to "legitimate" bulk e-mail has often been > talked about, notably at the Direct Marketing Association. I _believe_ > they're instinctively against it, however, are seeing it as inevitable. A label that couldn't be copied by sleazier spammers? > But, that's very much hearsay and we'd need to ask them and others for > their opinion. That would be within scope of the work ECP.NL is about to > lead on the policy research side for WP2 (kick off next week in Barcelona). > The same hearsay by the way tells me that Trust UK is now based at the DMA > - we need to make some contact there when we have more to say. > > Since we're building a platform that can carry any metadata about a group > of resources and include within that methods by which machines can take > steps to add trust to the metadata/label, then I'd say it's very much in > scope. The EU funding, however, is explicitly not for filtering projects. Interesting. I wasn't thinking of it for filtering, rather as something like a 'browser helper' sidebar, pointing out if the site or page had been annotated as being a fake/fraud/etc by various parties. Dan
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