<div dir="ltr">This has gone from mere cost-shifting to protocol takeover. Self-hosting is essentially dead because you are guaranteed to get filtered by Outlook and Gmail, which means that there is de facto embrace-and-extend -- "best viewed in Internet Explorer at 800x600" but for a core standard.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 5:48 PM Hal Murray via Nnagain <<a href="mailto:nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net">nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">[Was Amtrack]<br>
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> 2) I could get mad that I figure 80% of this new email list is vanishing into<br>
> spam boxes.<br>
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> What of the 10s of thousands of other emails that have come over the years<br>
> not just from <a href="http://lists.bufferbloat.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">lists.bufferbloat.net</a> but from people trying honestly to<br>
> communicate? <br>
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There is/was a good discussion of all the good things that network geeks have <br>
done.<br>
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How about discussing the things they haven't done?<br>
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Spam would be pretty high on my list. It's tangled up with (in)security -- a <br>
lot comes from infected systems or phished accounts.<br>
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The current approach to spam is cost shifting. If you don't pay for your <br>
abuse desk, the crap that you send or phishing sites you host..., means that <br>
the rest of the net has to spend more on defense.<br>
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Anybody remember Spamford Wallace? He was going to setup a spam friendly ISP. <br>
Nobody would connect to him. I wonder what would happen if a few ISPs that <br>
host a lot of abuse had more troubles getting connected to the net. Would a <br>
few well publicized examples be enough to spread the word?<br>
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High on my list would be dis/mis-information. The business model seems to be <br>
to show customers things that will keep them online so you can show them more <br>
ads. Gues what does that?<br>
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Is this also cost shifting? It's society as a whole that has to pay for the <br>
disruption caused by bogus information.<br>
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These are my opinions. I hate spam.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Nathan Simington<br></div><div dir="ltr">cell: 305-793-6899</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>