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Re: [Asrg] Economic model is borken. (sic.) Let's fix it

2003-03-07 14:37:59
At 13:08 7/03/03 -0800, Nate W wrote:
This may be optimistic, but I don't think spammers will adapt to
widespread whitelisting.  They'll try, but they'll fail.  Maintaining
"Millions" CDs of address pairs (recipient and a whitelisted sender known
to work for that recipient) is a big job.

1. That's not the only way to adapt to whitelisting.

2. This ignores the damage done by whitelisting.

See pp17-22 of http://www.noie.gov.au/projects/confidence/Improving/Spam/Interim_Report/CAUBE_Sub.pdf

In fact if you haven't been working on the spam problem for a few years at least, you should probably be reading that whole document in order to come up to speed (or at least to have enough basic knowledge to start evaluating proposed solutions).
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Troy Rollo                              Chairman, CAUBE.AU
asrg(_at_)troy(_dot_)rollo(_dot_)name                   Executive Director, 
iCAUCE

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