Re: Comments on IM2000

>On May 4, 2005, at 11:46 PM, James Craig Burley wrote:
>
>> I tend to agree.  In fact, *personally*, I really don't mind seeing
>> short spammy messages in notifications, as long as I can quickly skim
>> and skip them, and as long as I'm aware they didn't consume much in
>> the way of my system's resources to receive them.  I think most users
>> would also be willing to live with that.
>
>Try that on a mail account that gets a dozen or less legitimate mails  
>and thousands of spams a day.  That's quickly a lot more than you can  
>"skim" without wasting tons of time and missing the legitimate mails[1].

Yes, at that scale, I can see that would be a problem.

IM2000 seems poised to make it *easier* for spammers to spam on that
scale, in its "natural state" anyway.  (Notifications are much cheaper
to send; message contents rarely need to be sent along with
notifications.)

I can't see how to effectively deal with that problem without
employing techniques that make some of IM2000's key advantages over
SMTP relatively trivial after all.

-- 
James Craig Burley
Software Craftsperson
<http://www.jcb-sc.com>