On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:51:10 PDT, ch...@blask.org said: > -- 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)
Anybody who thinks they can "*solve* the problem" is taking some really good pharmaceuticals. I don't think there's a single police department out there that seriously think they will "solve crime and elimitate it at the root". So if police departments with thousands(*) of years of experience aren't able to eliminate meatspace crime, why do you think there's any realistic chance of of doing so with the cyberspace spam criminals? (*) Yes, thousands - I'm sure there's been a city guard to deal with pickpockets and the drunks coming out of taverns almost as long as there have been pockets for pilfering and taverns for the drunks to come out of... So back around Hammurabi or so...
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