Re: @EXT: RE: United Nations report on Internet standards

Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 2 Apr 2020 21:29:42 -0400



    On 4/2/20 9:19 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:

    
          For sure that in the antispam
            world, the ability to see patterns across a large set of
            messages is invaluable for classifying messages, and looking
            at each message right at the endpoints in isolation is much
            less effective.

          
        Well, sure, but that's not a justification for email to be
          transmitted in cleartext.

        
      It might be a justification for
        email not being delivered directly to people's eyeballs

      
    I'm not aware of any email system that delivers messages directly
      to people's eyeballs.   There are MSAs and message stores.
    Or to put it differently, if people want to use an email system
      that delivers mail directly to their eyeballs, they're giving up
      one kind of spam filtering by making that choice.   Which might be
      a reasonable choice for some and not for others.

    
    Keith