Claus Färber wrote:
Chris Lewis <clewis(_at_)nortelnetworks(_dot_)com> schrieb/wrote:
From a practical standpoint, News/NNTP spamming is less of a problem
than it was in the mid-late 90's. The IETF is far less interested in
fiddling around with a protocol that is mature and declining in
relative importance.
Netnews might be part of the solution to email spam. Netnews is quite
efficient at one-to-many communication and does not suffer from spam as
much as email does.
If mailing lists (and newsletters) can be moved to Netnews (or a similar
scheme), we can make sending a large amount of messages more expensive
without harming legitimate mailing lists.
True. Usenet is probably the best way to distribute high volume mailing
lists. Because, that is in effect what a newsgroup _is_.
But you find out that the Usenet broadcast medium mechanism only works
when the traffic is of interest to a "significant" fraction of the
population so that the bandwidth is amortised over more users. A
mailing list with only 5 members is grossly inefficient use of Usenet.
Given that full Usenet feeds are already up in the 100Gb+/day range (as
of a year or two ago!), it could not handle a paradigm shift of this nature.
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