At 11:50 AM 7/2/2003 -0500, gep2(_at_)terabites(_dot_)com wrote:
>>Personally, I don't think that *any* solution that to be effective requires
>>re-engineering the entire world's E-mail infrastructure is a practical
>>solution
>>today. There's just too much of it, in too many places, and with too
little
>>onsite technical expertise in many of those places.
>However, should we be considering a solution that replaces the email
>infrastructure as a long term answer to spam?
While it might be interesting to blue-sky that, I don't think that
discussing it
as a serious solution to the spam problem is very sensible. We need
something
MUCH sooner than that, and I think the only practical way to achieve that
is to
build it on top of the system we have today. And THAT means it must be
incrementally deployable.
[..]
If we are forming a comprehensive plan for killing spam, then we should
consider long term solutions as well. We can structure such plan to
gradually move the Internet with short term, medium term and long term
solutions, all leading to the long term solutions. I do not think any of
the short or medium term proposals or approaches can kill spam entirely -
even your approach will allow ASCII spam through. To completely kill all
spam will require a long term solutions. However, we do not have to worry
about a long term solutions right now, we can concentrate on the overall
plan and specific short-medium term solutions.
[..]
I don't think that there is a single "silver bullet" (wooden stake?) that
will
instantly stop spam. What's more likely is that we eventually and
progressively
just put enough sand in their gears that the great majority of them simply
give
up and decide to take up another career.
[..]
It is very well possible that all of the short and medium term solutions
will "put enough sand in their wheels" to stop them. Nevertheless, long
term solutions should remain within our ear shot, even if we do not spend
as much time on them as on short term stuff.
Yakov
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