on 5/27/2003 12:28 PM Zefram wrote: > Whether the receiving-end filtering approach is viable in the long > term is debateable. When 99.9% of email is spam, the filtering world > will look very different. Perhaps at that point it'll be infeasible to > continue allowing unsolicited email at all.
Some of us are already at that point and are wanting to have the debate right now. Every system can be fooled (corrollary: every fool has a system). This includes pre-emptive measures like laws, pre-transfer black/whitelists, and post-transfer filtering techniques. What laws provide over the other mechanisms is a discouragement hammer. The other mechanisms are purely defensive, and as I said earlier, only have value if you redefine some measure of defeat as victory. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
