[e2e] hobbyist filtering and indiscreet IP (was: About email domains / Re: Discrete IP)

[Dave Crocker]

> Even better, perhaps professional mailing lists like this should start rejecting postings from 'hobbyist' email addresses ("@gmail.com", "@yahoo.com", etc.)...


This line of thinking fits in nicely with the regular and continuing 
pattern of proposals for a Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem 
(FUSSP).

Unfortunately:

    http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt


More broadly, proposals for additions or changes to large-scale systems 
(and quite a few smaller-scale ones) have a very complex -- and often 
constantly varying -- dynamic, for achieving success.

The tendency is for proposals to assume an adoption model that is far 
too static and simplistic.

Modifying Internet services is a multi-player game and winning those is 
never trivial.

d/
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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net