Re: [Asrg] Spam, why is it still a problem?
Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> Mon, 16 January 2006 18:00 UTC
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> We could probably knock together a modern interoperability > specification which would accomodate these, and many other, factors but > what use would it be? We would then have to convince every user of mail to > upgrade their software, and if we manage that what cost would it have? ... > If you want spam to stop dead you only need to replace SMTP as the mail > transport protocol of choice for everyone everywhere at once. I would like to introduce a new term to spam-fighting, analogous to FUSSP ("final ultimate solution to the spam problem" or something close to that): IFUSSP The IMAGINARY Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem. >From the first nanosecond spam was recognized as something which needed some sort of generalized solution people involved have repeated to each other over and over: The problem is you can't just replace all the mail software overnight on either clients or servers which makes a practical solution very difficult. (I'll call that the First Axiom of IFUSSP) Sounds good, but I claim there is no such solution, or it's never been outlined that I've seen. Someone please outline it and let others work on deploying its acceptance. The latter, deployment, is a management function about which a brilliant software designer may have little insight. Why proclaim onself expert in both the design and its practical deployment? Others have those skills. It's been well over 10 years we've been proclaiming that any good solution might take (gasp) as long as 10 years to deploy. So let's just have this IFUSSP design, please. Or let's stop claiming it exists. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Login: Nationwide Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo* _______________________________________________ Asrg mailing list Asrg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg
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