> >Contrary to what you might think if you read nanae or spam-l in 2002, >the driving motivation behind providing public access to the RBL was >exactly that issue. >-- >Bill Cole >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Absolutely. Excluding trolls the people may differ on the rules and methods used by different iterations of RBLs but agreement on the need for such is universal. >I expect that one thing spam will accelerate is the devolution of >email out of the hands of ISP's and into the hands of relatively >small user collections such as families. You cannot ever hope to >implement really good spam filtering at the ISP level because once >you get past a few hundred users from the general public, the >diversity of that community makes for a broad range of mail that >people really want to get through. The spectre of a quantum proliferation of M Sexchange servers on DSL lines across the globe appears before my eyes. GAH!!!!!! This makes SIMS all the more >interesting as a mail server because it is ideally suited for >microservers. On hardware that is otherwise laughable by today's >standards, you can set up a server for a dozen users that almost >never stops working and doesn't require a multidisciplinary expert to >administer. >-- >Bill Cole >[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd wager that there isn't a subscriber here that, given a $00.50 Quadra 700 or an LCIII, couldn't teach your garden variety Grandma how to run SIMS and MacJ reliably and responsibly in about 4 hours. On the subject of a future system to handle advertising. <donning asbestos shorts> I was thinking a couple weeks ago about a central database where people could voluntarily opt to recieve targeted ads. Fill out a form giving a consensual recieving address and check boxes pertaining to topics of interest. Advertisers would then pay a fraction of a quatloo per address to send targeted ads to people who asked for it. Any advertising NOT coming through this channel would invoke the A10 Warthog script and convert the point of origin to a steaming heap of rubble. This would be far in the future I'm sure and would require a lot of unlikely precursors such as responsible admins, 99.999% accurate tracking and functional anti spam laws on a worldwide front. Never mind Dan ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
