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Re: Lazy network operators
- From: Rob Nelson
- Date: Sat Apr 17 18:42:24 2004
Spammers are users too. You can't spell "abuser" without "user." You
are inherently trying to diminish the power of the abuser users. No
spam mitigation solution can ever answer, "yes," to that question
without the qualification that at least some users, the abusers, will be
disempowered. The equation will always come to balancing how hard you
hit the spammers versus minimizing the collateral damage. Or it's another
classic example of security versus usability.
But speaking of usability, email becomes IMMEDIATELY unusable if there is a
technological "anti-spam" measure in place, be it something client-side
like spamassassin or another RFC implemented server-side, that prevents
even a single wanted email from getting to you. Especially if you are, for
example, sitting at home on the phone with another person saying "Email me
that file, again" and it's not going anywhere. At that point, email is 100%
dead.
Rob Nelson
ronelson@vt.edu
Rob Nelson
ronelson@vt.edu
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