On Oct 30, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: <snip ridiculousness>
> > Email travels over shared resources. Spam consumes roughly %95 percent of > that shared path (comm lines and servers). Receiving operators must devote > masses of resources to filter that firehose of mostly junk, in order to get > everyone's mailboxes to remain at least somewhat useful. Since the spammers > are well-organized and aggressive and often quite bright, they adapt their > attacks to get round these filters, thereby creating an extremely unstable > arms race. This means the entire situation is extremely unstable. When -- > not if -- it breaks, mail becomes unusable. That will be a common suffering. > > The one-to-one cost or damage is probably also a reasonable perspective, but > it's /incremental/ to the shared cost. > > d/ > -- > > Dave Crocker > Brandenburg InternetWorking > bbiw.net > So you support filtering end-user outbound SMTP sessions as this is a means to prevent misuse of the Commons*. Correct? - Brian * I do not think of the Internet as a commons, but Dave does. I will not comment on this as it is tangential to the thread.
