Re: Public Policy and Consumer ISP Hygiene (was Comcastpop-ups)

[chris () blask org]

-- On Mon, 10/19/09, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

> Oddly enough, for an "intractable" problem, most sites are
> managing to deliver a reasonably acceptable user experience.  

By the definition "not easily relieved or cured" it remains intractable for providers, though most users can mostly 
ignore it today.  For those who need to/choose to try to actually *solve* the problem (iow - eliminate spam at the 
root) it remains kind of like trying to catch a bag of wind.  While the remnant of difficulties experienced at the user 
level is empirically pretty small, the likelihood of missing an important email due to over aggressive spam filtering 
is, I would guess, nearly infinitely greater than missing one because of some other technical failure to deliver the 
message.  At that level, even in the user space spam remains a bigger problem than most anything else.

I agree with you, though, about the premature announcements of the death of SMTP. I'd bet a bottle of reasonably good 
of scotch that SMTP is clicking away five years from now.

-chris


      
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