If I was the microsoftie in charge of spinning this I could honestly
claim, 'because some people put other priorities first like pushing for
a change in the accepted royalty free terms for licensing patent rights
in open standards'.
A better observation would be that today spam is not much of a user
problem, it is a back office problem.
Spam as a commercial tool is practically extinct, only criminal uses are
profitable at this stage.
-----Original Message-----
From: asrg-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
[mailto:asrg-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On
Behalf Of Craig Cockburn
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 4:25 AM
To: asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: [Asrg] Spam, why is it still a problem?
Or more to the point why are we letting it still be a problem?
On 24th January 2006 the Microsoft deadline for fixing spam
will have passed http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3426367.stm
and also mentioned here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/24/tech/main595595.shtml
Given that spam is still a problem, comprising about 90% of
email and costing about $40 billion a year, why is it that
there is so little visible progress on this list and
generally regards implementing a solution that actually works
and which can be easily accessed by the average Internet
user? (and even better open source). Moreover why is there so
little movement on canning spam at the source rather than
allowing it to consume bandwidth until it reaches either
someone's mail box or a filter?
I am wondering if anyone here can explain to the average Internet user
1. Why so little progress appears to be happening 2. What
needs to happen for spam to be largely resolved as a problem
3. How far we are down this road and when we might expect a solution?
Comments welcome and I hope to publish a summary on my site
here http://www.siliconglen.com/spampetition/
Which mentions many of the technological advances on the
Internet since the first spam in 1994 and asks if we can do
all that, why is it taking
12 years to address spam effectively?
Craig
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