Bingo, that's the whole point, spam doesn't get "fixed" until there's
a robust economics available to fix it. So long as it's treated merely
an annoyance or security flaw there won't be enough economic
backpressure.
On February 16, 2005 at 18:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) wrote:
> Barry Shein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Eventually email will just collapse (as it's doing) and the RBOCs et al will
> >inherit it and we'll all be paying 15c per message like their SMS services.
>
> And the spammers will be using everyone else's PC's to send out their spam,
> so
> the spam problem will still be as bad as ever but now Joe Sixpack will be
> paying to send it.
>
> Hmmm, and maybe *that* will finally motivate software companies, end users,
> ISPs, etc etc, to fix up software, systems, and usage habits to prevent this.
>
> Peter.
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