Re: Inexpensive anti-spamware/anti-verminware tactic

JCB> And when I imagine how it'd actually be deployed, over the same
JCB> breadth and depth of audience as present SMTP email has, it
JCB> seems to me like it'd end up having pretty much the same
JCB> weaknesses as SMTP has today, or will have as SMTP is
JCB> incrementally improved.

JdeBP> No, it won't.  The whole point of IM2000 is that by design 
JdeBP> it does not have one, particular, very basic flaw of 
JdeBP> SMTP-based Internet mail.

JCB> And that flaw is?  

... expressed both at the bottom of the web page that I suggested that 
you read all of the way to the bottom, and at
<URL:http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/Proposals/IM2000/design.html#SendingIsCheap>.

JdeBP> The notion that you are buying into, that SMTP will improve in 
JdeBP> the future and will end up just as good as IM2000, is a false 
JdeBP> one.

JCB> Whatever I'm "buying into" is irrelevant in this thread, since 
JCB> I'm not in any way claiming that my own beliefs should be 
JCB> considered in weighing the viability of IM2000.

Of course it is, because yes you actually are.  You buy into the notion 
that SMTP will actually be improved, and you base your argument, quoted 
above, upon that belief.

JCB> my focus isn't on the nuts and bolts of IM2000, rather, how might 
JCB> I advocate its deployment (and the substantial costs of same) to 
JCB> someone like my wife, who is *not* highly technical, but (at least 
JCB> in her past) runs an IT department and therefore is likely to have 
JCB> some very insightful, incisive questions regarding exactly what 
JCB> IM2000 buys us that SMTP not only *doesn't*, but *can't*, regardless 
JCB> of how it's incrementally improved as an ecosystem.

<URL:http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/Proposals/IM2000/differences-from-smtp.html#SenderStoresInbox>