From: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut(_at_)danisch(_dot_)de>
I wouldn't be surprised at all if most of the spammers turned out
to be the same people selling anti-spam-software and services, and
trying to put through recipient-only solutions.
Full-disclosure: I make a living selling anti-spam software.
Nevertheless, I am not a spammer. I also give away the core of my
product for free under the GPL. And I offer for free anti-spam ideas
that anyone (including my competitors) can use or not as they see fit---
I don't go for dumb patents or stupid trade secret protection.
The bottom line is that I also think this research group will fail,
if by "fail" you mean "find an effective standard solution that stops
almost all spam, and is implementable within the next decade."
I think my business model is realistic: I don't expect a real
solution to spam without massive reworking of Internet protocols, and
I don't expect that reworking to take place in under a decade. In the
meantime, I see an opportunity.
If you do not like my business model, don't buy my products, or else
just use the GPL'd subset.
--
David.
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