Spam

[Owen Blacker]

Jon Ribbens (hi, Jon), quoting Roland Perry:
> 
> > There is a general rule that Spam is not a technical problem, and
> > technical measures will always have drawbacks. What's needed is a way to
> > solve the social problem.
> 
> The problem is that it is cheaper to send than to receive. It seems to
> me that this can be solved either socially (through legislation) or
> technologically (by replacing SMTP with something else). Neither of
> these solutions is easy though.

At the risk of pushing this even further off-topic, a social solution
doesn't strike me as very likely to succeed, given the lack of possibility
for a global solution.  Legislating here or in the US isn't very likely to
stop all these GB-1232 Chinese spams I get, is it?

Personally, I'm not sure I can see anything other than stop-gap solutions
like SpamAssassin or massive schemes, such as replacing SMTP (pretty damn
unrealistic, imho), really ever solving the issue of spam.

But spam != crypto, so I should prolly shut up now...  :)


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