On 9/25/2019 11:57 PM, David MacQuigg wrote:
The big problem I see with new solutions to the spam problem is - there
is no longer a problem. Most of the big email services are doing such a
good job of filtering the spam that there is really no incentive to
deploy a whole new system.
This is a false sense of security.
90-95% of the email traffic across the open Internet is spam. Worse,
the bad actors are intelligent, aggressive and adaptable. The current
situation is a constant arms race. That defines a fundamentally
unstable situation, no matter how well the defenders are doing at any
given moment.
So, yeah, end users typically see only a tiny fraction of spam, but a)
that requires massive amounts of continuing effort by those running
filtering agents, and b) enough still gets through to cause real-world
problems for end users.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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