Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Nov 29, 7:49am, Michael Thomas wrote:
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} That's pretty much why this email postage stuff is a waste of time. Even
} if it were wildly successful, what other part of the net would you
} want the spammers to focus their huge resources on instead?
Don't bother treating your termite problem, they'll just move next door?
Not really. It's more like we have a pretty well known front line for
this war. We're "winning" at an abstract level because email is still
usable, even at the cost of its war of escalation. If we really "won"
a final victory in email, they'd just pick a new battlefield to play
on. So we get the choice of containment where we're doing ok, or
fighting on a completely new battlefield where who knows what the
dynamics will be. Wishing for what you might get, and all of that.
} Ground up redesigns based on lots of operational experience often
} produce amazing results.
The same would be true in terms of applying solutions, no?
No, they get to choose from a set of interesting existing things to
attack. For all we know, the ability to defend them could be even
_worse_. Like, for example, in domains where text based content
filtering sucks. Forced, punctuated evolution is not necessarily in
our advantage.
Mike
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