[IP] more on Better Off Without E-Mail?

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:00:41 -0500
> From: Dave Wilson <dave@wilson.net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Better Off Without E-Mail?
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> To: dave@farber.net
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> >>If the spammers keep up this type of attack they could kill their
> >>golden goose, destroying the email system they're tring to monopolize.
> >>--
> >>          Jim Gillogly
>
> I don't expect people will come to their senses. USENET, a kind of
> electronic bulletin board system, was effectively destroyed for most users
> because of spamming and off-topic postings. In fact USENET has effectively
> disappeared from the net's collective consciousness; most of today's
> Internet users are unaware that it even exists (because it became so
> inefficient it effectively ceased to exist). I'd suggest the spam issue is
> a classic Tragedy of the Commons problem: People take what they want, now,
> because there are no forces -- market or otherwise -- that compel them to
> stop.
>
> -dave
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