Tony,
TH> come, but it wouldn't take much to convince people that moving to a new
TH> mail system would either reduce spam,
Please indicate some historical basis for moving an installed base of
users on this kind of scale and for this kind of reason.
TH> If the courts routinely granted judgments to
TH> individuals of 100 $/euro for every received unsolicited message, people
a transition plan for 100 million users that relies on an "if"
concerning entirely new behaviors for a large number of independent
judicial systems around the world is a rather fragile dependency, to say
the least.
(and, yes, I realize that that was just an example. so, please, go
ahead and provide a scenario that is not equally fragile. i can't.)
TH> would jump at the chance to run the new mail tool, and spam as we know
TH> it would loose its economic viability. Making that work means absolute
TH> traceability of the message origin.
For this effort to be effective, I think it will have to be
done in a way that is at odds with the traditional IETF thinking:
1) Compatibility with SMTP is not desirable
why?
2) Some form of privacy is not desirable
3) To much scalability is not desirable
scalability is not desirable? wow.
please explain.
d/
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