Channel email
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Channel email, unlike filter
s, lists
, and challenges, doesn’t target spammers but treats everyone the same. Its design enables polite conversation, which naturally combats spam.
is asynchronous messaging, but on a human level it’s a conversation
, with all that implies.
A sociotechnical design
would share communication rights by ensuring that:
grants parties the right to freely exchange messages, as in current e-mail. If no channel is open, users must negotiate one by channel request “pings”—small messages containing permissions. Opening a channel is a separate step from sending a message, like the handshaking before face-to-face conversations, or that of synchronous communication. This handshaking can be automated, so users just send messages while underneath the computer manages the permissions. Instead of the current “send and forget” one-step protocol, channel e-mail is multistep:
Step 3 messages use the permissions of steps 1 and 2 to avoid further channel requests. Channels are defined by participants, not message topic, content, or attachments.
Channel control isn’t just the right to tediously reject emails one by one, but the right to close a channel entirely, including any future messages from that source.
Channel e-mail classifies channels into
The default would be “Accept all,” as it’s closest to the current state. While most list approaches are centralized, channel e-mail devolves communication control to users.
As well as being protected by ISP blacklist
s, channel e-mail gives users their own accept/reject lists.
List maintenance, a problem for centralized lists, occurs automatically by normal use in channel e-mail—any sent message opens a channel, and any rejected message closes the channel. Also, while ISPs need consensus to change their lists, individual users can open or close channels directly.
Filter
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s, lists
Mailing list
A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers is referred to as "the mailing list", or simply "the...
, and challenges, doesn’t target spammers but treats everyone the same. Its design enables polite conversation, which naturally combats spam.
Conversational requirements
On a technical level e-mailE-mail
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
is asynchronous messaging, but on a human level it’s a conversation
Conversation
Conversation is a form of interactive, spontaneous communication between two or more people who are following rules of etiquette.Conversation analysis is a branch of sociology which studies the structure and organization of human interaction, with a more specific focus on conversational...
, with all that implies.
A sociotechnical design
Sociotechnical systems
Sociotechnical systems in organizational development is an approach to complex organizational work design that recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces. The term also refers to the interaction between society's complex infrastructures and human behaviour...
would share communication rights by ensuring that:
- e-mail conversations require mutual consent;
- users have the right to be left alone and can refuse to converse;
- anyone can request to converse, given brief requests that identify sender and purpose;
- users converse in a turn-taking fashion, without further introductions; and
- any party can leave the conversation at any time.
Conversation protocol
Channel e-mail supports these requirements by creating a channel entity above any messages sent. Instead of managing messages users manage channels, each a conversation of many messages. A channel created by mutual consentConsent
Consent refers to the provision of approval or agreement, particularly and especially after thoughtful consideration.- Types of consent :*Implied consent is a controversial form of consent which is not expressly granted by a person, but rather inferred from a person's actions and the facts and...
grants parties the right to freely exchange messages, as in current e-mail. If no channel is open, users must negotiate one by channel request “pings”—small messages containing permissions. Opening a channel is a separate step from sending a message, like the handshaking before face-to-face conversations, or that of synchronous communication. This handshaking can be automated, so users just send messages while underneath the computer manages the permissions. Instead of the current “send and forget” one-step protocol, channel e-mail is multistep:
- . Channel request/permission: a conversation request (A to B).
- . Channel permission: a permission reply (B to A).
- . Message transmissions: mutual conversational messages.
- . Channel closure: either party closes the channel.
Step 3 messages use the permissions of steps 1 and 2 to avoid further channel requests. Channels are defined by participants, not message topic, content, or attachments.
Channel control isn’t just the right to tediously reject emails one by one, but the right to close a channel entirely, including any future messages from that source.
Channel e-mail classifies channels into
- channel open: always accept;
- channel closed: always reject; and
- unclassified: ask me each time.
The default would be “Accept all,” as it’s closest to the current state. While most list approaches are centralized, channel e-mail devolves communication control to users.
As well as being protected by ISP blacklist
Blacklist
A blacklist is a list or register of entities who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition. As a verb, to blacklist can mean to deny someone work in a particular field, or to ostracize a person from a certain social circle...
s, channel e-mail gives users their own accept/reject lists.
List maintenance, a problem for centralized lists, occurs automatically by normal use in channel e-mail—any sent message opens a channel, and any rejected message closes the channel. Also, while ISPs need consensus to change their lists, individual users can open or close channels directly.