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Replacing SMTP in favor of an authenticated mail protocol might be a good thing... | 156 comments | Create New Account

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Replacing SMTP in favor of an authenticated mail protocol might be a good thing...

Authored by: Wol on Sunday, May 19 2013 @ 03:21 PM EDT

Actually, I wouldn't trust Google. Look at what they've done to usenet (which
suffers the same problem as email - spam).

And there's nothing wrong with smtp scaling apart from the fact that 90%
(actually, rather more I gather) of all backbone email traffic is spam. THAT is
the problem, causing mail servers to collapse under the weight of storage
required (and now that so much spam is random text, it's tricky trying to save
space even with a CAFS).

At the end of the day, unfortunately, there are too many people out there for
whom the cost/reward ratio is too attractive. So they'll set out to break any
system that doesn't successfully push the cost of their scams on to them.

The only thing that'll really solve the problem without that is decent internet
QoS that can throttle runaway spammers.

What you've got to do is take away the lure of easy money and, sadly, if that
means you have to penalize ignorant users - well, it'll be a tough learning
experience :-(

Cheers,
Wol

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