Re: [Asrg] Spam, why is it still a problem?

Craig Cockburn <craig@siliconglen.com> Wed, 18 January 2006 07:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] Spam, why is it still a problem?
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In message <20060118030954.25248.qmail@simone.iecc.com>, John Levine 
<asrg@johnlevine.com> writes
>
>>There are a number of proposals moving forward (slowly). Each of these
>>will help. However I don't see much in the way of actual project
>>management of this. Who is driving these proposals - what is their
>>marketing plan to ensure wide take up? Where is a discussion of the
>>problems bringing them to market? What is the expected timescale for
>>having these proposals widely available? Where is the business element
>>in the proposals ? Who argues the case for these proposals versus vendor
>>specific ones? Where is the viral campaign ala Firefox to get 100
>>million people using them in a year (even 10 million might be a start).
>
>Nowhere that I know of.  So we all thank you for offering to do all
>this important work.
>
The point is that if this is important enough why is it not a funded 
position?

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