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Re: False positives (was Re: [Asrg] Re: RMX Records)

2003-03-07 13:24:22
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:07:14 -0500  Keith Moore wrote:
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 | > > - should not depend on universal deployment to be effective
 | > 
 | > This is highly desirable, but not a rigid requirement. 
 | 
 | none of these are rigid requirements.  actually this is a pet peeve of mine 
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 | if these exercises get seen as attempts to establish lists of requirements
 | then everyone tries to justify his pet feature as a requirement.  they are
 | "criteria" or "desirable goals".  and it's perfectly possible and reasonable
 | for one desirable goal to run afoul of another one.
 | 
 | the point about universal deployment is this - if in order to be useful, a
 | spam-blocking scheme requires wide deployment, and no benefit results until
 | that condition is met, then if there is doubt that the scheme will be widely
 | deployed, it becomes difficult to get people to invest in it.  all things
 | being equal, a scheme which can be incrementally deployed and which produces
 | some immediate benefit for those who invest in it is more likely to succeed.
 | 
 | > If I choose to adopt an email solution that requires senders to
 | > me to use a particular new technology in order to reach me,
 | > is that a dependency on universal deployment?  
 | 
 | it depends on how you define success.  if by imposing the particular new
 | technology you get rid of spam without discouraging people from sending you
 | mail that you want to receive, then it was successful for you.  if it does
 | discourage people from sending you mail that you want to receive, then it
 | probably was not successful for you.   of course, what is successful for you
 | might not be successful on a large scale.
 | 
 | Keith
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