Yes, this sux. There is no way to guarantee that your email will get
through. A few things to remember though:
1) It is spammers who have brought us to this situation.
Agreed
2) If no one had done anything to try and stop spammers, our inboxes
would be totally swamped with spam by now and email would be
useless instead of "merely" unreliable.
Absolutely, and without blacklists even more people woulod have left
the internet by now.
That does not mean that they are the long term answer. If blacklists
were not causing problems of their own and loosing effectiveness there
would not be a need for this group.
Equally filtering approaches have a certain degree of utility, but
if we rely on those alone we will find ourselves back at the same
situation we are today, only having fired off the two easiest to fire
shots and not slain the dragon.
In the case you outlined with DNSBLs, I would suggest getting a backup
email address so that if your ISP is blocked by ISP you are trying to
send to, you can still get through.
That is simply not an acceptable solution. If Alice wans to send a mail
to Bob and Bob wants to receive it, something is seriously wrong if the
protocol fails to get the message across.
The IETF can choose to define a second best Internet but that is not wnat
the end users want. They want it all, Bob wants to get Alice's message
and no spam. If we can't solve that problem here then the market will
follow whoever can solve the real requirements.
Actually it will folow whoever claims most credibly it can solve the
full solution which unfortunately is a much harder problem. I remember
the SDMI fiasco when the RIAA would leap to buy whatever snakeoil of
the week offered instant solutions with no change of business model.
People like myself got ignored for arguing you had to delegitimize
piracy and that was going to be hard with Hilary Rosen playing bigcorp
ogre. We did not have a sufficiently perfect solution, so they chose
snakeoil that promised perfection instead.
Phill
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