Re: SPF and egos

Jeff Silverman wrote:
> Is SPAM really a technical problem?  Clearly SPAM is a problem, but it
> isn't clear to me that SPAM is a technical problem.  The real source of
> the problem with SPAM is that there are some people who are ethically
> challenged who misuse it.

Let me replay my point.
The general problem behind spam is, as I see it, that the internet has no 
methods of expressing trust and reputation (good-enough methods, blacklists 
are insufficient). "Misusers" will remain anyway. Generaly speaking, today's 
spammers are "rationalistic actors" in a typical "tragedy of the commons" 
(G.Hardin) which we can see daily, while checking our inboxes.
Basic authentication in e-mail may be the first step towards "trust 
accounting" or "propertization of trust" in the internet.

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	Viktor S. Grishchenko