It appears that Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >On 4/11/23 11:17, John Levine wrote: > >> Email is different from all of those because it is by design easy to >> send a bazillion messages in a short time. Spam only works if you can >> send vast amounts quickly and cheaply, which is why we see it in >> e-mail and robocalls and to some degree SMS. > >I don't think that "easy to send a bazillion messages in a short time" >was a goal of email's design. Nobody ever said it was, but the fact that you can do so is a key reason we have email spam. R's, John
