On Monday 19 August 2002 07:49 pm, Donald Eastlake 3rd wrote: > If spam really isn't a problem, then the efforts involved in ultimately > engineering a real solution, which in my opinion has to use economic > forces, and the efforts involved in engineering easy user interfaces, > will not be worth it. How very true. Until it becomes "economically" un-profitable to send spam, it will continue to both be a problem - and a growing one... > If spam really is a problem and is exponentially leading to email > becoming unusable in most cases, then these engineering efforts are > worth it and if the protocol aspects are not done in a standard manner, > they will be done in proprietary ways. True again.... << cut>> > They wouldn't be able to subscribe > to mailing lists (unless the mailing list operator went to a bunch of > work and allowed people to pay for subscription to cover the delivery > costs) but how bad is that? <<cut>> Actually I think you would see "lists" going to "web" based (html) which would not require them to "send" anything through/to your servers/system. > > This is a complex space. I Very true... -- Larry Smith SysAd ECSIS.NET sysad@ecsis.net