[59988] in North American Network Operators' Group
Is there a technical solution to SPAM?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Tue Jul 29 09:25:41 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:24:29 +0100
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Anyone who believes that SPAM can be solved by technical means should try
googling one of the following:
sms spam
i-mode spam
IM spam
It should be clear that spam is really a social problem, not a technical
one and therefore the solutions will be found in the social, political and
legal spaces, not in network engineering. Some combination of education
and training, new laws, arrests and public trials will be needed to get
rid of it.
I'm betting that we get the biggest bang for the buck out of education and
training. Part of it will come from teaching people network etiquette,
part from teaching them that spam is not a way to make money, and part of
it from teaching website owners how to provide effective advertising so
that website ads can dominate the cheap mass advertising space and
displace the spammers.
In any case, I suggest that we should ban all future discussion of SPAM
and spammers from this mailing list since it is not related to network
engineering or operating an IP network.
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