On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:56:40PM -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: > You're argument boils down to "it's not wholly effective, [snip]
Actually, my primary argument is that it has/would have zero effect. There's no point in deploying something that the enemy completely defeated years ago. My secondary argument, which I didn't bother to articulate here, but have gone into elsewhere, is that it may well make the spam and related abuse problem *worse*. (One of the most common mistakes made by those proposing anti-spam measures is that they presume the enemy will passively or actively accomodate those measures, despite decades of evidence suggesting that at best, such measures will encounter passive resistance, and at worse, they'll be actively subverted to suit the enemy's purposes.) ---Rsk ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
