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I suppose snake oil salesmen were a technical problem too? > Any "societal solution" will be orders of magnitude more expensive and less robust than technical
by withinboredom 2y ago
I suppose snake oil salesmen were a technical problem too?
> Any "societal solution" will be orders of magnitude more expensive and less robust than technical solutions.
Yes, yes, it is quite expensive, though you'd find it would actually be quite more robust.
- naasking 2y ago> I suppose snake oil salesmen were a technical problem too? Snake oil salesmen were not created because of lax technical infrastructure. Spam is not a technical problem because scammers exist, it's a technical problem because the technology is what lets them reach you. The technology can then be amended so they can't reach you and spam is solved. I'm not purporting to solve scams, but to solve the technical mistakes that lets scammers spam you.
- withinboredom 2y agowut. I guess we just need to wait for a big enough CME and we don't have to worry about spam anymore; so in that respect, I guess you are right. Though its like using a hammer on a window to screw in a picture frame.
- naasking 2y agoNothing about my proposal requires centralization, the federated status of email remains exactly as-is.