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Everything has flaws, but this was more about friction and marketing. People like the least path of resistance or friction and buying an anti-spam service was
by LinuxBender 6y ago
Everything has flaws, but this was more about friction and marketing. People like the least path of resistance or friction and buying an anti-spam service was easiest so it won. The methods I described have some friction and require people to set things up correctly. Its a trade-off of human cost vs outsourcing cost and outsourcing often wins.
- tboyd47 6y agoYeah, but tech is not a zero-sum game, and the path of history is not linear. Email is becoming a pay to play system where you’re spam if you’re not one the approved senders, and this seems like an elegant idea to correct that.
- LinuxBender 6y agoIt is an interesting idea. I am looking forward to how it plays out. I think the first challenge will be getting adoption from MTA's, smtp libraries and major email providers. This can't be done in a silo (server only) because smtp takes two to tango. Both the sender and the receiver have to implement this concept to utilize it. There will for sure be a handful of spammers that can't get their malware updated right away so you would at least have a window of less spam.