At 12:29 PM -0700 4/26/03, J C Lawrence wrote:
On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 07:43:35 -0700
Phillip Hallam-Baker <Hallam-Baker> wrote:
The spam problem is solely one with the SMTP protocool.
Not quite, it also comes with SMS messages, and telephone calls
and... well pretty much evey protocol where the conversation is
initiated by someone other than the recipient.
I'm told that IM spam via Yahoo/MSN/etc al is becoming common. I've not
seen it under Jabber.
I don't think I've seen anyone propose doing what AOL does with AIM to email.
Admittedly, it only works because AOL controls all the servers, but
that hasn't stopped any other proposals :-).
If someone sends you an unwanted instant message, you simply dis
them. (Okay, AOL doesn't call it that, but I can never remember
their word for it.) The sender's messages are now delivered slowly
for some period of time. If more than a few people do the same, they
can't send at all for a while. Simple, understandable, efficient,
and effective.
It's not going to work for email though. In fact its weak point is
that AOL uses email as the authentication mechanism.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
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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