On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 07:59, Rich Kulawiec <rsk(_at_)gsp(_dot_)org> wrote:
I think any anti-spam
scheme which relies on end users is dead on arrival. Users are stupid,
users are lazy, users are careless, users have spent the last several
decades conclusively proving that they cannot tell spam from non-spam,
phish from non-phish, scam from non-scam.
I would modify this slightly.
Any anti-spam scheme which relies on reasonable behavior by *all* end
users in order to be effective for *any* end users is dead on arrival.
However, an anti-spam scheme which relies on the end user in order to
provide spam protection *for that end user* can still be quite viable.
To put it another way: If someone could come up with an anti-spam
system that worked, but only for people who have (say) skills
equivalent to a CS degree, that might not be of any use to 90% of
people, but it'd work just fine for me.
mathew
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