On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:43:56 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted :
>Yup, you solved an easy problem - designing a spam-proof email >system. That's been done any number of times. The hard part is a >deployment strategy that will actually get the world to transition to >such a system. That's why earlier nearly identical proposals got >rejected - nobody could come up with a workable transition plan. >Without a transition plan, a better email system is only of academic >interest - and not even much of that at this late date. The big problem with any new system would be it cannot communicate with others. So presumably your clients need to talk both old and new protocols. Just say, YES, you need the old mail system too, but you will find yourself using it less and less. So how do you promote it given that you can't talk to everyone with it? 1. confidentiality. -- All is encrypted. Sell it as something for confidential intra-corporate communications. This just happens transparently. This means you CAN'T accidentally reveal a company secret by bungling the software or forgetting to encrypt. 2. faster -- presume both ends are online 24-7. Do everything 8-bit transparent, compressed prior to encryption. All decrypting and compressing/decompressing is transparent. 3. prestige -- for people whose time is too valuable to deal with spam. Perhaps clients are designed so someone else can deal with giving and revoking permissions for you and prioritising your mail. The riffraff are not on this net, only those with certificates, people of distinction. Software in designed so a secretary can monitor and manage several other VIP's mail. Recall that there were intra-net emails long before the Internet. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
