On 11/20/2013 8:53 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:
On Nov 20, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Dave Crocker <dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> wrote:
As for eliminating ads, please point to the track record of success
for an alternative approach in the real world, at scale. Every
imaginable other model has been tried. Successes have been few and
limited.
This is news to me. Someone has released a user-friendly email
solution based on SMTP or some other protocol that supports friending
and does not deliver mail from non-friends?
The transport protocol is largely irrelevant.
People have done all manner of closed email services, over the years.
They work in small groups of folk, who have no interest in dealing with
the larger world. Serendipitous contact by new and unknown folk is an
integral part of living in the real world. Allow in new folk easily and
you allow in bad folk too.
If you mean whitelisting, I haven't seen a good implementation of
this,
Facebook might disagree, as will any of the other services that let you
set a profile saying that you will accept mail (or IMs, or whatever)
only from folk in your address book, friends list, Trusted Contacts
list, or the like.
I agree that resolve is the problem, and that it is a real and
significant problem.
You seem to have missed my point. It is not 'the' problem. It is
merely part of the complex mix, which mostly serves to demonstrate how
little ultimate control we have over open social mechanisms.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net