[Mailman-Developers] AOL's requirements for spam complaints

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On Jan 30, 2004, at 11:42 AM, Kevin McCann wrote:

> I'm simply thinking about MLM challenges, which are increasing every 
> day, it seems,

I disagree. the MLM stuff is doing quite well. There are challenges at 
the e-mail level, but non-MLM-email suffers as badly as MLM-email. And 
I really think the spammers have moved into their own version of the 
"battle of the bulge", an increasingly difficult fight with ever 
reducing gains. It's ugly right now, but it seems to me that's at least 
in part due to an increasing sense of urgency by the spammers.

(more here if you care: 
http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/001252.html)

> and thinking about what can be done. Personalization without critical 
> slowdown is an issue.

define "critical". personalization is inherently more resource 
intensive than not personalizing. Physics wins. it's more difficult to 
send 20 emails to 20 people than one email to 20 people; and the 
reality is, you can't personalize without sending those 20 emails.

Can things be improved to minimize that resource cost? Definitely. Is 
it a high priority? For the vast majority of mailman users, no.