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

[Carl Ford <imhocorp@optonline.net>]

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

I rarely take part in these battles but given our analysis of “SPAM” I would say that the word is like cancer.  It is used to describe several illnesses.  Some of them we can cure easily, others we can protect ourselves against, and others will come upon us randomly.  

Kr cfOn 4/19/03 19:45, "Alan DeKok" <aland@freeradius.org> wrote:

> Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:
>> Instead of thinking about a disease that has been eliminated, think
>> about crime, war and cockroaches. It is not realistic to expect to
>> eliminate any of these, no matter how much any of us might wish
>> otherwise.
> 
> From a biological view, smallpox was eradicated only because there
> were no non-human vectors distributing it.  I'm not sure the same is
> true for spam.
> 
> To continue the disease analogy, the common cold is difficult to
> eradicate because it's ubiquitous, easy to transfer, and has few
> lethal side effects.  AIDS is difficult to eradicate because it's
> no common, difficult to transfer, and has a long gestation people
> before carriers realize they're sick.
> 
> Most diseases fall somewhere in between.  Spam looks more like the
> common cold than any other analagous disease, so it's probably going
> to be impossible to get rid of entirely.
> 
> Alan DeKok.
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