Re: Principles of Spam-abatement

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> [smtp] is what the world uses today and will continue to use for quite
> some time.  reports of its death are just a tad premature.
> 
> When folks agree on the new mail transfer services that we need and
> when we try to add them to smtp and fail, THEN we can have productive
> discussions about a replacement transfer protocol.

well, except that that's not how dns was created, or http, or html, or
nntp, or xml, or rpc/xdr/nfs, or sip, or pgp, or jabber.  i guess that's
how a lot of people now think it should be done, but the counterexamples
are extensive, and so i'm not convinced that smtp will be replaced under
precisely the conditions you describe.

> until then, calls for a new protocol ... constitute firing before aiming.

i guess we'll all see how it turns out.

> And everyone else needs to move from the generic reference to
> "consent" on to something that is more concrete, as well as being
> integrated into a full range of human uses for email.

i'm pretty comfortable with www.dictionary.com's definition of "consent".


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