On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Richard Clayton <rich...@highwayman.com>wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > In message <fdd34a58-6ce6-497a-a177-b940d36d0...@lrw.com>, Jerry Leichter > <leich...@lrw.com> writes > > >On the flip side, mail systems like gMail or Yahoo mail are complex and > >difficult to run *exactly because they are immense*. > > The mail systems part is really rather simple... and pretty much looks > after itself. That's not where all the employees work. > > > But what are they getting > >for that size? There are no economies of scale here - in fact, there are > clear > >*dis*economies. > > ... the economy of scale is in identifying and routing spam of various > kinds. Some can be detected a priori -- the majority of the detection > relies on feedback from users (the chances are that someone else got the > bad mail before you did, so it can be arranged that you are not bothered) > > >Even without the recent uproar over email privacy, at some point, someone > was > >going to come up with a product along the following lines: Buy a cheap, > >preconfigured box with an absurd amount of space (relative to the "huge" > amounts > >of space, like 10GB, the current services give you); then sign up for a > service > >that provides your MX record and on-line, encrypted backup space for a > small > >monthly fee. (Presumably free services to do the same would also appear, > >perhaps from some of the dynamic DNS providers.) > > Just what the world needs, more free email sending provision! sigh > > >What's the value add of one of the giant providers? > > If you run your own emails system then you'll rapidly find out what > 2013's spam / malware problem looks like. > > Just as success in crypto deployment isn't about algorithms or file > formats, success in mail handling isn't about MX records and MTAs. > Which is why I think Ted Lemon's idea about using Facebook type friending may be necessary. I don't think we can rely on that for Key distribution. But I think it needs to be a part of the mix. I have a protocol compiler. Just give it an abstract schema and out pops a server and client API library. Just need to add the code to implement the semantics. It is up on Sourceforge, will update later this week. -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/
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