[Asrg] SPF: Summary of Objections

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:44:05AM -0400, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
| 
| Agreed. The spam problem might never go away, but these changes can 
| gradually reduce the problem. 
| 

Most objections to SPF have come from people who

1) get stuck trying to define spam, and because they can't define it,
   claim that nobody else can either, and so cannot imagine how to
   solve a problem they cannot frame;

2) champion a personal definition of spam, and attack technical
   solutions because those solutions do not match their definitions;

3) conclude that because technical solutions have not solved spam in
   the past, they cannot possibly solve spam in the future; this is
   the "spam is ultimately a social / technical / legal problem" camp;

4) observe that no single solution is perfect, and fall into despair;

5) misunderstand some technical detail of SPF, and take up arms
   against a chimera;

6) recognize that you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs;
   but, fearing that theirs are the eggs to be broken, storm the kitchen;

7) assert flatly that it won't work; assert that similar approaches
   have been proposed and, broadly, "failed"; therefore so will SPF;

8) do not see beyond the short future that is explicitly described;

9) prefer a different approach;

10) or have a personal reason to see spam survive and grow.

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