RE: [Asrg] Spam, why is it still a problem?

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker at verisign.com>]

If I was the microsoftie in charge of spinning this I could honestly
claim, 'because some people put other priorities first like pushing for
a change in the accepted royalty free terms for licensing patent rights
in open standards'.

A better observation would be that today spam is not much of a user
problem, it is a back office problem. 

Spam as a commercial tool is practically extinct, only criminal uses are
profitable at this stage.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asrg-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:asrg-bounces at ietf.org] On 
> Behalf Of Craig Cockburn
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 4:25 AM
> To: asrg at ietf.org
> Subject: [Asrg] Spam, why is it still a problem?
> 
> Or more to the point why are we letting it still be a problem?
> 
> On 24th January 2006 the Microsoft deadline for fixing spam 
> will have passed http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3426367.stm
> 
> and also mentioned here:
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/24/tech/main595595.shtml
> 
> Given that spam is still a problem, comprising about 90% of 
> email and costing about $40 billion a year, why is it that 
> there is so little visible progress on this list and 
> generally regards implementing a solution that actually works 
> and which can be easily accessed by the average Internet 
> user? (and even better open source). Moreover why is there so 
> little movement on canning spam at the source rather than 
> allowing it to consume bandwidth until it reaches either 
> someone's mail box or a filter?
> 
> I am wondering if anyone here can explain to the average Internet user
> 
> 1. Why so little progress appears to be happening 2. What 
> needs to happen for spam to be largely resolved as a problem 
> 3. How far we are down this road and when we might expect a solution?
> 
> Comments welcome and I hope to publish a summary on my site 
> here http://www.siliconglen.com/spampetition/
> 
> Which mentions many of the technological advances on the 
> Internet since the first spam in 1994 and asks if we can do 
> all that, why is it taking
> 12 years to address spam effectively?
> 
> Craig
> --
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