Spam [was Re: still looking for that stuff?]

[Ian S. King]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 9:48 AM, ANDY HOLT <andy.holt at tesco.net> wrote:

>
> >> 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.
>
> 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

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