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Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?]
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:58:45 -0400
One useful definition of (some sorts of) insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results. I therefore assert there is no technical solution to spam. What will stop it is some sort of new economic model, billing for e-mail (yeah yeah some reasonable amt "included"), along with vigorous enforcement of that model against theft of service etc. Miscreants of the sort we're dealing with only understand jail time. But, as they say, ya get what ya pay for, or put differently and to paraphrase someone else who I don't know wants the attribution: Most people want free e-mail in the worst way, and that's just how they get it. I'll venture that any such sea-change will not come from the technical community. That's another example of doing the same thing over and over; clearly the internet technical community is stuck in a rut on this issue and has been for years. -b
Current thread:
- Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?, (continued)
- Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......? Tony Finch (Jun 08)
- Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jun 08)
- Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......? Barry Shein (Jun 09)
- Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......? william(at)elan.net (Jun 09)
- Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......? Douglas Otis (Jun 09)
- Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......? Stephen Sprunk (Jun 09)
- Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......? Matt Ghali (Jun 09)
- Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 10)
- Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Andre Oppermann (Jun 10)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jun 10)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Barry Shein (Jun 11)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Steve Sobol (Jun 11)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 11)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Steve Sobol (Jun 11)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] william(at)elan.net (Jun 11)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] John Levine (Jun 11)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Barry Shein (Jun 13)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] John Levine (Jun 13)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Dave Crocker (Jun 11)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Michael . Dillon (Jun 13)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender IDAuthentication......?] sthaug (Jun 13)