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yahoo to use public key technology foranti-spam
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 17:09:15 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 14:02:49 -0800 From: Ed Gerck <egerck () nma com> Subject: Re: [IP] yahoo to use public key technology foranti-spam To: dave () farber net Yahoo! may have missed the most important point in communications. Just as it is true for a phone call, the most important email for a company (or you) is not an email that you send ...but the email that you receive. Thus, adding an ad hoc, non-standard way to block email is simply making more and more likely that an important message will NOT be received by Yahoo! users -- irrespective of their efforts. And, not to be left behind, we may expect that AOL and MS-hotmail will also be offering their own non-standard way to block email and separate their usersf rom the "other" users. In other words, while there is value for users in NOT blocking a communication they may receive, there is value for providers in separating the users in the providers' own corrals of "standards". We saw this happen before, before TCP/IP. We should be developing an interworking solution and going back to basics -- how can we trust a communication we receive? How can we define trust in terms of a machine-machine dialogue, in way that reflects what we understand by trust and have learned to use in 1,000's of years of commerce and communication exchange? If he Internet world parallels the real world, why should how we trust a message be different? Cheers, Ed Gerck ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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