On 12/27/19 12:41 PM, S Moonesamy wrote:
That's where I will disagree. There may be some social aspects to
spam, but
it is mostly a technical problem. The technical problem is the open
nature
of SMTP. That will never change, and this technical problem is only
solvable
mostly by other technical means, that are rooted in something other than
SMTP.
In any case, there's nothing that can anyone show that any social or
legal
approach to fighting spam will make any difference whatsoever. Again:
look
There is a (IRTF) RFC which has the following text: "rise of spam and
other anti-social behavior ..." I did a search of the IETF mailing
list archives for other discussions of the topic. I could not find
anything significant using the IETF search engine. I couldn't use a
well-known search engine for the search as, some time back, the IETF
blocked the search engine from indexing its mailing list. Anyway,
from what I remember of IETF-related discussions, spam used to be
describe as a social problem.
I don't even know what people mean when they claim that spam is a
"technical problem". It sounds like a ridiculous statement to me.
Spam is absolutely anti-social behavior, because it's a small number of
people stealing the attention of a huge number of people for completely
selfish reasons.
But people used to also say things like "you can't address a social
problem by technical means" which I also thought was a ridiculous
statement. Social problems are addressed by technical means, if
imperfectly, all the time.
Keith
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