Re: [ASRG] 0 - General, Reliability of Transport

[der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>]

> From what I have seen over the months there is two camps within this group

> 1/ Those that believe Spam should be stopped at any cost
> 2/ Those that believe Spam should be countered but not at the expense
> of losing possibly important messages

> I am quite solidly in the second group (am I alone).

I doubt there is anyone here in camp 1; they can just turn off their
SMTP servers and go home, their goal achieved.  (There may be some who
_say_ they're in camp 1, but if they haven't just shut off their
mailers, they apparently don't actually mean it.)

As Daniel pointed out, there's a third group, those who believe that
spam should be SMTP-level rejected, never silently dropped, thereby
avoiding losing ham.  I hold myself to belong to this group.

There's a fourth group, too, those who believe spam should be countered
to the point at which the chance of the defenses mistaking a ham for a
spam is less than the chance of a human, deleting spam, making the same
mistake.  I hold myself to belong to this group as well.

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