Re: [Asrg] Spam Control Complexity -- scaling, adoption, diversity and scenarios

["Alan DeKok" <aland@freeradius.org>]

"John Fenley" <pontifier@hotmail.com> wrote:
> C/R can mess with mailing lists.
>       I proposed a system to fix that problem. I recieved no constructive 
> criticism, and when I proposed government funding that became the issue not 
> wether or not it could work.

  Uh, no.  You proposed government *control*.  "Government funding"
means you get a research grant to implement a system that everyone can
use.

> The main advantage I see to C/R is that it does not require any technical 
> knowlege, and it can prevent a new user from ever seing a single spam thus 
> disrupting its propegation.

  The main disadvantage is that I'm not going to talk to someone using
a C/R system, because it means increasing *my* workload, to lower
*their* spam problem.  This is fundamentally evil, in my opinion.

> Filters of any sort, on the other hand, require user input and must be 
> constantly trained as spammers evolve. Users will only do this after they 
> see spam as a problem, this is probly after they bought their *free* viagra.

  There are spamtraps, which receive *nothing* but spam.  Many filter
systems use spamtraps as an automated source of spam.

> I see spam as a major problem.

  Most people here agree.

> A 1% increase in overall productivity could mean the difference
> between a good economy, and a bad one.

  That's nice.

  Alan DeKok.
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