michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us ("Michel Py") writes:
> Paul, I'm curious: why are you wasting your time with this? Any
> withdrawals from not fighting it on a daily basis?
because several years ago when iesg commissioned a wg to study the spam
issue and decide whether ietf had a role, the carefully worded answer was
"no". i thought this answer was short-sighted or wrong-headed or both.
c'mon guys & dolls, smtp and the model behind/beneath it are failing to
address the need for universal batch communication. we fixed the encoding
problems (trying to fit things into a 990-by-7 box was hard without mime)
and it only took four and a half years of bitchfesting and the results have
been nothing less than spectacular (in that i don't get uuencoded tarballs
from nextstep users any more.)
on april 28 of this year, aol/microsoft/yahoo publically teamed up to fight
spam (since statistically speaking, it is universally launched by their
collective customers and aimed at their collective customers.) see
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0428aolmsya.html for the announcement.
does anyone here think this will solve the problem for anybody, even the
customers of those three customers?
i'm wasting my time because i want this problem looked at more broadly.
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Paul Vixie