At 12:29 PM -0800 3/19/03, Steve Schear wrote:
At 01:13 PM 3/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Anybody who's tried to deploy software to end users (especially software
that involves retraining) knows 400M is the wrong place to attack. And
even a well-hidden Proof-Of-Work doesn't help here - your phone WILL ring
when people ask why it's taking 3 minutes to send mail.
Not if they don't have my phone number. Which they probably don't
if they haven't contacted me before.
Is that supposed to be a joke, or do you truly not care whether your
system is useable, so long as it has a nice architecture?
I've never said I'm *STRICTLY* against a sender-side solution. My generic
criteria for a sender-side solution is: It has to be something that my
mother the Hotmail user can deploy without me or my brother having to
make a trip home to install for her. Windows 98 on a several-year-old PC.
This is not necessary for initial deployment. After all the web
didn't seem like it was ready for my grandmother 10 years ago.
Ten years ago the web was something entirely new--it wasn't replacing
anything, and it didn't have to interoperate with anything. The
business plan for creating something brand new is *way* different
than the plan for replacing something in use by hundreds of millions
of people. People are much more willing to try something new than
they are to get rid of something old--no matter how broken. To
replace something you have to show them very significant benefits.
Your benefits depend on everyone choosing your system over any other.
When the number of people using a system numbers in the thousands,
that's not a big deal. When the number of people using it numbers in
the hundreds of millions, that's really bad odds.
--
Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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