-- On Mon, 10/19/09, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote:
> Oddly enough, for an "intractable" problem, most sites are
> managing to deliver a reasonably acceptable user experience.
By the definition "not easily relieved or cured" it remains intractable for
providers, though most users can mostly ignore it today. For those who need
to/choose to try to actually *solve* the problem (iow - eliminate spam at the
root) it remains kind of like trying to catch a bag of wind. While the remnant
of difficulties experienced at the user level is empirically pretty small, the
likelihood of missing an important email due to over aggressive spam filtering
is, I would guess, nearly infinitely greater than missing one because of some
other technical failure to deliver the message. At that level, even in the
user space spam remains a bigger problem than most anything else.
I agree with you, though, about the premature announcements of the death of
SMTP. I'd bet a bottle of reasonably good of scotch that SMTP is clicking away
five years from now.
-chris
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