Re: Let's get started

Eduardo M. Bragatto wrote:
>     I'm with Sean. I don't think that's a problem with the protocols 
> used today. The biggest problem is already known by almost everyone 
> involved on this kind of discussion: the receiver's resources being used 
> by anyone who want to send a message.

I think a lot of the reason interest in IM2000 has dropped off is that the
*only* thing IM2000 accomplishes is to push the storage cost to the sender.

When the senders were *paying* for their sending systems, that was a 
reasonable approach to curbing the problem.

Today, an increasingly large portion of the spam problem is virus-hijacked 
systems which have become bulk-email zombies.  What IM2000 would do in that
environment would be to shift the storage cost to these hijacked machines,
which isn't costing the *originators* of the spam anything.  Thus as long as
we have a large number of internet connected machines which are easy to break
into, the spam-zombie machines will be out there in large numbers, and 
approaches like IM2000 are unfortunately not going to make a big dent in the
problem.

Thats my $.02 on the issue.

On the other hand, there are a fair number of sharp individiuals on this list
who are at least thinking about these problems, so I keep listening in case
something that's at least another step in the right direction (which I think
the IM2000 concept is) comes up.

Marc