[NNagain] Spam filtering

[Hal Murray <halmurray+bufferbloat@sonic.net>]

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> 2) I could get mad that I figure 80% of this new email list is vanishing into
> spam boxes.


> What of the 10s of thousands of other emails that have come over the years
> not just from lists.bufferbloat.net but from people trying honestly to
> communicate? 

There is/was a good discussion of all the good things that network geeks have 
done.

How about discussing the things they haven't done?

Spam would be pretty high on my list.  It's tangled up with (in)security -- a 
lot comes from infected systems or phished accounts.

The current approach to spam is cost shifting.  If you don't pay for your 
abuse desk, the crap that you send or phishing sites you host..., means that 
the rest of the net has to spend more on defense.

Anybody remember Spamford Wallace?  He was going to setup a spam friendly ISP. 
 Nobody would connect to him.  I wonder what would happen if a few ISPs that 
host a lot of abuse had  more troubles getting connected to the net.  Would a 
few well publicized examples be enough to spread the word?



High on my list would be dis/mis-information.  The business model seems to be 
to show customers things that will keep them online so you can show them more 
ads.  Gues what does that?

Is this also cost shifting?  It's society as a whole that has to pay for the 
disruption caused by bogus information.


-- 
These are my opinions.  I hate spam.