[ih] what is and isn't the web, was Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol

[Dave Crocker]

On 8/23/2016 9:14 AM, John R. Levine wrote:
> In any event, as I hardly need tell you, one of the most persistent Well
> Known Bad Ideas (WKBI) is to stop spam with a walled garden, where the
> people inside are all nice and the spammers are all locked out.


Alas, folks might find it amusing to watch the IETF's STIR working 
group's current efforts attempting to invent anti-abuse mechanisms for 
telephony, with no attention to the 1-2 decades of email anti-abuse 
experience.

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net