Plain ASCII text will continue to be delivered as before.
You have mentioned before that even if only ASCII spam is being delivered
that will reduce the overall bandwidth consumer. HOWEVER, that will not
reduce the total number of spam items in someone's inbox.
First, people's inbox capacity is never (in my experience) limited by number of
messages... always by number of megabytes.
Second, if spammers are unable to pull a lot of the tricks and deceptions that
they do at present, I believe that a lot of spam that presently "works"
economically will no longer be viable.
Another words, while it will accomplish something for the ISPs, it will have
no
effect on the end-users -
I *absolutely* disagree:
1) Their ISP-provided inboxes will not overflow so readily due to unwanted
spam;
2) Usually the "narrow" pipe in terms of bandwidth is coming into the
end-user, and reducing that volume will mean that wasted download time
(especially for dialup customers) will be greatly reduced.
3) Many of the most annoying tricks and deceptions used by spammers won't be
usable anymore... meaning that the spam that DOES arrive will be less likely to
confuse or trap the unwary. (Also, many of those deceptions and obfuscations
attempt to make it harder to find the right place to complain to about the
spam... so user complaints are more likely to be more effective)
4) The residual spam which still arrives will be more readily filtered by
content filters (perhaps at the end-user's system).
Gordon Peterson http://personal.terabites.com/
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