Fight the Future
On 07/19/01, Max Devlin wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2001, at 11:34, Bill Cole wrote:
>
> > market. The reality we found was that the providers doing
> > half-hearted abuse handling are nearly all doing so intentionally,
>
> I hate to say I told you so, but I could have told you that quite
> a few years ago. This, unfortuantly, is only too obvious in the
> way abuse complaints are mishandled. Was and still is. While
> there are some number of ISP's who are beyond reproach I can think
> of many more who are not. Even worse are those who were model citizens
> and defected to the dark side. With the dotcom depression, I cant see
> this changing anytime soon.
So, they're doing it out of fear of AGIS style reprisals (if they've got memories), and/or MAPS listing. But if MAPS' power wanes (which it has, and will continue to do) then we've only got a year or two until they catch on.
*sigh*
Okay, here's my prediction for the future. Remember that I'd rather not be right about this.
What we're gonna see happen is best described as islands in the net. The old "just change SMTP!" mantra that most of us have ignored is gonna become more popular, and we'll see many smaller sites move towards whitelists and authenticated SMTP, essentially cutting themselves off from the Internet. I still doubt that many commercial or free providers will do that, but instead they'll adopt ever-stricter filtering methods -- we've seen this with AOL already, and what I'm developing for Hotmail could be tuned to be even worse if we're not careful -- which makes them islands as well.
> On 19 Jul 2001, at 11:34, Bill Cole wrote:
>
> > market. The reality we found was that the providers doing
> > half-hearted abuse handling are nearly all doing so intentionally,
>
> I hate to say I told you so, but I could have told you that quite
> a few years ago. This, unfortuantly, is only too obvious in the
> way abuse complaints are mishandled. Was and still is. While
> there are some number of ISP's who are beyond reproach I can think
> of many more who are not. Even worse are those who were model citizens
> and defected to the dark side. With the dotcom depression, I cant see
> this changing anytime soon.
So, they're doing it out of fear of AGIS style reprisals (if they've got memories), and/or MAPS listing. But if MAPS' power wanes (which it has, and will continue to do) then we've only got a year or two until they catch on.
*sigh*
Okay, here's my prediction for the future. Remember that I'd rather not be right about this.
What we're gonna see happen is best described as islands in the net. The old "just change SMTP!" mantra that most of us have ignored is gonna become more popular, and we'll see many smaller sites move towards whitelists and authenticated SMTP, essentially cutting themselves off from the Internet. I still doubt that many commercial or free providers will do that, but instead they'll adopt ever-stricter filtering methods -- we've seen this with AOL already, and what I'm developing for Hotmail could be tuned to be even worse if we're not careful -- which makes them islands as well.
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Change
Five or six years ago I went to see that Larry Flynt movie
with some friends. First we played video games for a while
in the lobby.
Coming out of the movie, I remembered that I'm an activist.
A few months later CAUCE was formed. It could easily have happened without me, but I was there and had the drive and the energy. Sometimes I still do (http://www.cauce.org/).
Coming out of the movie, I remembered that I'm an activist.
A few months later CAUCE was formed. It could easily have happened without me, but I was there and had the drive and the energy. Sometimes I still do (http://www.cauce.org/).
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