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[MailPush] Re: "Precedence: bulk"



Hello Ariel,
After giving the matter a lot of thought, I decided to turn down your
request for help in this specific subject.

The reasons are:

1. Nothing less than a full opt-in scheme (i.e. only people, who
   registered with you as ones who want to receive MailPush confirmation
   messages, will receive those confirmation messages) will turn your
   company from a spammer into a respectable netizen with service, which
   is useful to some Internet users.

   Only after your company has implemented such an opt-in scheme, will I
   agree to help in implementing options for special processing of E-mail
   with "Precedence: bulk" in headers (options which will presumably be
   useful to some of your customers).

2. The relevant standards are spelled out in the RFP series.  Your company
   being unfamiliar with such standards yet being allowed to provide
   specialized Internet services with annoying side-effects - is like
   allowing someone to drive a car, without having first learned "theory"
   and passed the theory test, and being familiar with the meaning of the
   various traffic signs.

   In the case of companies, it is perfectly OK to obtain the requisite
   knowledge by employing the services of an outside consultant.  However
   it seems that your company is not interested in obtaining the services
   of a fully knowledgeable consultant with deep familiarity of the
   contents of the RFP series of documents - choosing instead to turn to
   me (far from being qualified consultant) about those matters.

3. In addition to the Precedence header line, there are also other
   criteria for flagging non-private E-mail, such as E-mail which
   originated from the Usenet.  You must take into account also those
   criteria, but I am not familiar with them.
                                                  --- Omer

On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, ariel wrote:

> Dear Omer,
> 
> Our techies asked me to request a copy of a message you sent the mailing
> list to see what the format of it is.  Please copy an old message and send
> it to me so that we can use it to create the tools you requested.
> 
> If you wish to discuss this further please feel free to call me.
> 
> Regards and a happy new year,
> 
> Ariel Kolitz
> 
> VP Marketing
> New Email Communication Systems (NECS) Ltd.
> M@ilPush - Automatic Offline Email Notification Services
> 
> Tel: 972 (0)9 959-9082
> Fax: 972 (0)9 959-9608
> Mobile: 972 (0)52 546464
> ariel@mailpush.com
> http://www.mailpush.com
> 
>