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Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Sat Jun 11 14:34:05 2005

Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:33:29 -0700
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <17067.9813.70232.294500@world.std.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Barry Shein wrote:
> 
> One useful definition of (some sorts of) insanity is doing the same
> thing over and over but expecting different results.
> 
> I therefore assert there is no technical solution to spam.

The ultimate solution would have to be a combination of social, technical 
and probably legislative.


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