Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Mike Meyer]

Roedy Green <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website at munged.invalid> writes:
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:25:46 -0400, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote
> or quoted :
> You don't need 100% spam blocking to effectively solve the spam
> problem.  You just have to make spam uneconomic.

There are good reasons to doubt this. Most notably, there's no proof
that spam is economic now. There's also evidence that non-trivial
percentages of spam are more a form of ddos attack than any real
attempt to send mail.

> There was an analogous problem with telephone spam.  It was even
> easier for the telepest to get  addresses, just add one.  That was
> solved by legal means. It could come back as long distance rates drop
> and some country harbours them.

Just making it illegal won't do anything. Most spam today is the
result of illegal activity, and is part of an illegal or semi-legal
activity even if you ignore that.

You've got to convince the spammers that large men with guns will show
up on their doorstep if they keep it up.

   <mike
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