11 Aug
2016
11 Aug
'16
1:49 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 9:48 AM, ANDY HOLT <andy.holt at tesco.net> wrote:
When there were only tens of thousands of mail nodes (few of which had
more than a
few thousand accounts it was practical to put the responsibility on
postmasters.
With tens of millions (often with millions of customers) that is no longer
so.
"Every time you send a spam message, you kill a kitten. Think of the
kittens. Unless you're a dog person - then think of the puppies."
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
Spam will
not stop until the last spammer is dead.
Actually, it's really simple to stop spam. Simple, not easy.
You just need to delegate responsibility along with authority when
handing out netblocks, registering domain names, and the like.