Re: [Asrg] Anti-spam laws do work, FYI. There's proof.

["Alan DeKok" <aland at ox.org>]

"Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk at queernet.org> wrote:
> The war on spam can only be acceptable if it is about eliminating
> all of the spam you can eliminate without interfering with the
> delivery of a single piece of legitimate mail.

  Studies have shown that people deleting spam from their inboxes by
hand are only 98-99% correct.  That is, they delete a non-negligible
amount of real email.

  So for them, losing ~1% of real email is acceptable.  This makes me
wonder about the need for a "perfect" anti-spam system.

  I'm not suggesting we should design a non-perfect anti-spam system.
We should, as always, strive for perfection.  But it has a cost.
Maybe we'll discover that a simple solution stops 99% of spam, but
"interferes with" 1% of real email.  If people find that solution
acceptable for themselves, I don't see why we wouldn't deploy it.

  The reach for perfection is a noble goal, but not a practical one.

  Alan DeKok.

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