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Yes but it is more as a result of the weakness of the protocols. It started naively as something to send message from machine to machine. There was no real conc
by seec 1y ago
Yes but it is more as a result of the weakness of the protocols.
It started naively as something to send message from machine to machine.
There was no real concept of an identity or a user, it only has a random name (and later domain, but that part is tied to DNS and another machine abstraction). And there is the problem that sending is "free".
Which is why spam is an impossible problem to solve. The newer messaging apps are successful because they start with what really matters in the first place: who is sending the message, in other words the identity. Sending is in theory free, but in practice you pay with your data by letting the companies running the service exploit it for ads. Since they have full control of the identities of everyone using the service, a misbehaver is quickly blocked/removed depending on faults.
- timedrun 1y agoYes there was no concept but it is actually not necessary. Sending being "free" is not an unsolvable problem if you design the protocol correctly. It is very difficult to solve spam but it is possible to solve it, and without depending on just one platform. Creating a email/messaging protocol to solve this. It is directly compatible with email/messengers, low false negative rate compared to current spam filtering, free for senders. Check this profile for the email if you wanna ask for more info or get updates.