Re: mail 2.0

Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> the fundamental problem is that you want _unknown_ people to be able
> to contact you. some of those unknown people will abuse that
> privelege to spam you. if you can restrict your e-mail to a known set
> of senders, it is a no-brainer to avoid spam.

yes. that is what i think is going to distinguish mail 2.0 from its
predecessor, if such a thing ever comes to pass.

> e-mail is continuously seeing small improvements, but the immense
> installed base makes big changes difficult.

eh. back when google was in its infancy, how many people thought it was too
late to be starting yet another search engine?

usenet died as a social forum because there are no access controls. the whole
place went up in flames. it still works for technically-oriented groups,
because they are more or less troll-proof. nobody gets emotionally invested
enough in such groups to get into heated arguments. social sites that are
thriving, like livejournal, give users a ton of ways to block those they find
offensive. access controls for personal blogs, moderators for all groups.
livejournal has a very active abuse department. they routinely suspend the
worst of the trolls and griefers.

the biggest problem i can see with mail 2.0 is that there will have to be some
sort of governing authority. someone must have the power to throw spammers
off the new mail network. this is somewhat anathema to the spirit of the
internet. it's not entirely without precedent, though. the dns system is
much the same. it requires a governing authority to dole out a scarce
resource and resolve conflicts.

the more i think about this, the more i think it's inevitable. if somebody
would sell me a mail 2.0 account right now, i'd jump aboard in a heartbeat.
even if there were only a hundred other users, in the beginning.
.

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