Re: Comments on IM2000

It was thus said that the Great James Craig Burley once stated:
> 
> Why write a program, when simply using whatever vanilla software
> implements the new protocol will work just fine?
> 
> Again, if you think that sending an average four tracking requests per
> outgoing message for, say, over one million messages sent by a single
> 0wned box in a given day, and doing so over a period of as much as one
> week, is something spammers can afford to do, great, that's your
> opinion.
> 
> But that's *more* than they have to do *now* to send SMTP email (all
> else being equal) and probably more than than they'd have to do under
> IM2000 (as generally described), since the vast majority of their
> message notifications would be ignored by recipients anyway.
> 
> Under my proposal, there's no question the "average" user would have
> little trouble sending hundreds, even thousands, of pieces of outgoing
> UBE without running into resource limits.  But spammers won't find
> email to be such a worthwhile protocol to advertise their goods at
> those rates of usage, especially given an increasingly sophisticated
> end-user audience (and more-intelligent MUAs).

  What about mailing lists?  Say, a real popular one, like the Linux Kernel
Mailing list?

  -spc (And what's with the tracking anyway?)