Bingo, that's the whole point, spam doesn't get "fixed" until there's a robust economics available to fix it. So long as it's treated merely an annoyance or security flaw there won't be enough economic backpressure.
On February 16, 2005 at 18:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) wrote: > Barry Shein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Eventually email will just collapse (as it's doing) and the RBOCs et al will > >inherit it and we'll all be paying 15c per message like their SMS services. > > And the spammers will be using everyone else's PC's to send out their spam, > so > the spam problem will still be as bad as ever but now Joe Sixpack will be > paying to send it. > > Hmmm, and maybe *that* will finally motivate software companies, end users, > ISPs, etc etc, to fix up software, systems, and usage habits to prevent this. > > Peter. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989 *oo*