Re: [Asrg] [IP] 4 Rivals Almost United on Ways to Fight Spam

["George Ou" <george_ou at netzero.com>]

So Lane,

Aside from the fact that you probably shouldn't be pushing "Product X" on
this group, what makes "Product X" better than the other Spam appliances on
the market that also effectively stops "99%" of all spam the instant it's
installed?

What makes any of these $40K boxes better than a 1U Intel Architecture box
running Spam Assassin, DCC, and an SMTP antivirus gateway other than the
fact that you get don't have to build it and that you get some support?

What makes you think the Internet community is all of a sudden going to run
all of it's email through a proprietary and metered gateway?


George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lane Sharman" <lane at opendoors.com>
To: <asrg at ietf.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Asrg] [IP] 4 Rivals Almost United on Ways to Fight Spam


> Friends,
>
> I do not comment too often but I think we need to think about the
> problem differently with the following realities in mind.
>
> a) eMail has improved greatly the lives and productivity of individuals
> by communicating in rich images, attachments and html.
> b) a diversity of interests have transformed eMail into an integral part
> of global commerce.
> c) Like any system of transportation, with common law rules, there will
> be highway robbers, and,
> d) A good system of protection, albeit imperfect, will protect the many
> from the few, most of the time pretty well.
>
> I see SMTP traffic as a flow which, like water, must go thru a
> filtration system. I do not see SMTP water as ever being restored to the
> condition it was ante 1985 or so. Let's move on.
>
> Therefore, with SMTP, as with a good old house, let's provide it with
> some additional out-of-protocol support. The best I have done as a
> company is to license a filtration power plant (postini) to those who
> have heard my analysis.
>
> Perhaps, we could agree that 10-20 filtration plants around the world,
> as mandatory points of relay, would be a beginning solution point, not
> an end but a good beginning.
>
> Lane
>
> Andreas Saurwein wrote:


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