der Mouse wrote:
Mail does not need perfect - or even very good - reliability in order
to be useful. When I first started using email, it could take a week
to get mail from Montreal to California, with a chance that sometimes
approached even that it would get lost on the way. This didn't deter
lots of people, including me, from using it anyway.
You were pioneers, and obviously expected that whatever steps were
needed to amend reliability would have been taken.
In exchange for what are we giving up reliability now?
(FVO "us" approximating "people who didn't desert it", which I
expect would include most/all of the people I for one care about
exchanging email with anyway).
You must be at least 47, then. Correct? ;-)
No, actually, I'm not. (Where did you get that figure? I'm curious.)
Just a guess based on http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct07/email.html and
averaging on your correspondents...
The global walled-garden is just a step away.
Perhaps. I see no sign of it, though, at least not as I sketched it;
the few entities that are coming close to being global walled gardens
for email (gmail being the first one that comes to my mind) are not, as
far as I can tell, bothering to impose the responsibility on senders
that was a premise for the walled gardens I described being any more
spam-free than today's net.
The point of responsibility deserves more insight. I mention it in the
I-D, but only generically. What I'd mean is that you should be able to
reach the author of a message that has been delivered to you; or, to
allow anonymous posting, you should be able to reach the author's
postmaster, list moderator, or similar type, who is able to reach the
author, possibly indirectly, and that might disclose that information
according to existing agreements, local laws, the site's policies, et
cetera. Of course, an author's reputation may be affected that way. A
site reputation should then result from the average reputation of the
authors using that site, and a site may have a policy that allows them
to push out unwanted authors. I'm not aware of liability implications,
though.
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