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RE: Short-term versus Long-term focus: A bit of economics ( was: RE: [Asrg] TitanKey and "white lies"... (..."improves" C/R utility?))

2003-06-02 20:23:02
In the earlier drafts of the draft-asrg-requirements-xx.txt output there was a 
consideration of a methodology for considering effectiveness.  This was dropped 
because many (or few) assumptions may be described that constrain the solution 
in some.  Thus this type of methodology was dropped in favor of proposals that 
enumerate the assumptions of the proposed solution (and the set of 'spam' 
problems that are being addressed) and the solution set described.

-e

P.S. I do think that the following is a valid approach to a basis set of 
assumption axes, though there may be other dimensions that could be considered.

On Monday, June 02, 2003 7:42 PM, Barry Shein 
[SMTP:bzs(_at_)world(_dot_)std(_dot_)com] wrote:

Well, we could propose a simple, three-dimensional model for any spam
solution whose axes would be:

       1. Adoption (perhaps percentage of servers or clients.)
       2. Spam reduction (percentage of spam)
       3. Time (years or whatever.)

and try to judge the merit of a proposal on that basis.

Obviously one can't predict such a curve with any great accuracy but
at least we'd be estimating the same parameters for discussions' sake.

As an example, I think RMX would have a fairly steeply rising curve
over time for Adoption, particularly if # of servers was weighted by
the number of clients they represent (e.g., if AOL adopts it then
that's a big jump), and then adoption would probably slow down a lot
(i.e., early adopters adopt early and everyone else ignores it
mostly), and the (measurable) spam reduction would be small to zero
because I don't think it's a spam-reducer.

Others no doubt have another opinion, but if accepted this might be
some grounds for a common criteria.

I'll dub it the "Effectiveness Axes" or E-Axes for short.

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