On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, John Leslie wrote: > Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What makes this such an "interesting" problem is the critical need for > > spontaneous (unsolicited and uncoordinated) communication is many > > human activities. Eliminating the ability to have new people show up > > without an "appointment" will cripple some activities. > > I find it very interesting that jabber/IRC/etc -- designed quite > specifically to allow people to show up without an "appointment" -- > don't seem to suffer from spammers...
"Yet". Don't forget to add the "yet". Is there anybody who doubts that if irc became "the" mail paradigm, spammers would in very short order create automated tools to join and spew? Until of course they were booted, blacklisted, filtered. Is there some intrinsic reason that you think that a fundamentally open channel is somehow closable to spammers and automated tools? I could be mistaken, but I don't believe that such a reason exists. I don't think that they are targeted for spam primarily because of a (as of now) limited market and the ease of targeting mail. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
