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Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Wed, 26 March 2008 19:08 UTC

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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:05:54 +0100
From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
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John Levine wrote:
> When upwards of 90% of all mail is 
> spam, keeping mail usable is at least as dependent on limiting the spam 
> that shows up in people's mailboxes as delivering the trickle of good 
> mail.
>   

And to add to what John is saying, given that horrific statistic and 
that mail is still usable for a whole lot of people I think we should 
have cause to be optimistic.  After all, just how much worse can it get?

And no, that's not a challenge.
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