paralysis

Vernon Schryver writes:
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You know, it's quite elucidating seeing the banter
about the subject of spam, especially between you
and Paul but what strikes me more is the
overarching dynamic going on:

for (;;) {
   1) proposal is made
   2) proposal is classified into one of several
      general buckets
   3) proposal is deconstructed by those who've seen
      this many many times
   4) no silver bullet is uncovered
}

In the mean time, the exponential curve of spam
keeps on moving along the X axis for ever greater
values of X.

So... instead of pointing out the obvious that
there is no silver bullet, wouldn't it be a lot
more productive to frame this debate in terms of
what incremental steps could be taken to at least
try to change the overall climate? To perhaps move
things in a direction that might be in our favor?
To perhaps be open to making some mistakes and/or
no-ops?

We know spammers are smart and adaptable. The
problem is that in our paralysis, we are not.

           Mike