Re: Inexpensive anti-spamware/anti-verminware tactic

JdeBP> You shouldn't be.  It has been separately re-invented in
JdeBP> various places on Usenet no less than three times in the 
JdeBP> past fortnight alone.  (And those are just the places where
JdeBP> someone else has replied saying "You've just re-invented
JdeBP> IM2000.")  It's an idea whose time has come.

JCB> I agree with everything in that paragraph except the first
JCB> sentence and the implication that, just because lots of 
JCB> people think it's a good idea, I should therefore accept it.

If you think that the situation is merely that lots of people think that
IM2000 is a good idea, then you don't appreciate the full implications of what
I have reported observing.  It's not merely the case that a lot of people
think that IM2000 is a good idea.  It's also the case that a number of people
are now, separately and independently (since each has implied the idea to be
their own and made no mention of IM2000), thinking through the problem and
coming to the same conclusion.

JCB> Heck, your anti-anti-UBM page is a testament to exactly that
JCB> understanding: *many* people have independently come up with 
JCB> all sorts of anti-UBM measures (C/R and SPF are two IMO noxious
JCB> ones that come to mind).  But you (IMO correctly) rebuke the
JCB> *measures* without being unduly influenced by the sheer weight
JCB> and enthusiasm of their proponents.

Indeed.  And, likewise, I support measures on their technical merits without
being unduly influenced by their proponents, too.
 
JCB> Please allow me the same opportunity to decide for myself
JCB> regarding IM2000.

I didn't tell you what to decide.  I told you that you _should_ decide, and
that the reason for this is that the time for the idea has evidently come.  I
find it quite ironic that the one sentence that you disagree with actually
_only_ tells you that you shouldn't be sitting on the fence with respect to
IM2000.

And towards that end I've denied you the excuse, for remaining on the fence,
that there's nothing even remotely concrete to IM2000 yet.  (-: