On Mar 30, 2013, at 10:43 AM, John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com>
wrote:
It sometimes feels as if anti-spam efforts are trending in the
direction of its being acceptable to accidentally discard a few
dozen legitimate messages if doing so allows blocking a few
thousand unsolicited/undesired ones. I hope we never consider
that a good tradeoff but, if we do, the decisions should at
least be made openly and with some degree of community
consensus.
The trend in the market (meaning "young people") is that it seems to be
preferable to discard ALL email messages just to avoid getting a few SPAM.
That's a large part of why they use closed-group systems like Facebook and
Twitter in preference to email.
Subsequent filtering/blocking and "automatic" mailing lists (like "the list of
everybody who is interested in me and that I haven't explicitly blocked") and
the other big part of the appeal of closed-group systems.
I've tried to imagine using Facebook-like system for IETF work, and it is
strangely compelling ...
--
Dean