> I have two issues here. First, I disagree with the assumption that it is > incumbent upon ISPs to stop spam. Second, I wonder who gets to arbiter of > when "[spam] gets to be a problem", and how that determination > might be made. >
I understand an ISP would not want to be a 'gatekeeper', at this point in time. When better software for shutting out spam is created, it will be less lucrative for the spammers to keep trying, and 'better software' should - as one of it's goals, lower the cost of DEALING with spam, and when well deployed, EVENTUALLY make it less lucrative to try to spam, thus lowering the bandwidth requirements an ISP is forced to deal with. But okay, I'll admit it. That's in the future, and we can make any stories up for the future we want. Just as you are nonplussed as to how to stop it at the source, I am just as nonplussed as to how this software would specifically work, having no AI software training! There IS some interesting AI stuff going on in the gaming community. People would only be the arbiters of what *is* spam if the AI agents couldn't make a clear determination. But AI agents are learning fast! And the software is getting CLOSE to being able to do that. But I DO realize ISP's really don't want the headache of this fancy AI programming to have to deal with among everything ELSE they have to deal with. I hear you. No answer in this message, just hope on my part. _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
