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My inboxes are about 90% spam. I have read some statistics that say 40% of all email traffic is spam. For the sake of argument, let's say it's half-and-half.
(photo of Jon Postel, Steve Crocker, and Vint Cerf, in the ARPANET days)
There is talk these days about a two-tiered internet coming along. First of all, as anyone knows, it is already here - nevermind the corporate world where you can buy speed with T1s, even among the hoi-polloi there is DSL and other wide-er band access, and there is dial-up. This has negative effects - everyone has had an email saying, "please don't send big pictures, they take too long to download," no? The purpose of all this is to communicate, right?
One of the originators weighs in against the notion in an article in Register: Vint Cerf condemns two-tier internet.
The web is an animal that grows by eating its' tail - more that use it, more value to using it, more reason to invest in the hardware and software that supports it (in the hope of monetization to come). Rather than "if we build it, they will come", it seems to be "if they come, and if we can find the money, we will build it."
Look at Google and Technorati. The main Google Search servers are remarkably strong, they almost never seem to be down; but some of their growth areas, Gmail and Blogger for example, are not so strong, quite often either sluggish or off the air altogether. Technorati is growing geometrically, you can tell because it is at least 24 hours between Tag updates, sometimes several days, and it is regularly so slow searching as to be useless.
Does "50% of email is spam" mean that it uses 50% of the resources? Probably not, maybe someone who reads this can tell me.
Would not simply bouncing spam eliminate it fairly quickly? The spammers don't want to waste their time - I presume that when they get a bounce, they take that address out of their list. Putting a 'bounce tool' in the hands of end-users would do it eh? And would this not reduce the pressure for an officially two-tiered system?
Vannevar Bush / J.C.R. Licklider / Larry Roberts / Paul Baran / Bob Metcalfe / Doug Engelbart / Ted Nelson / Tim Berners-Lee / Marc Andreesen
The motivations and principles of these guys are interesting. Something that caught my eye was this: "A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.", from Ted Nelson; I think we missed the boat on that one.
If you are interested in seeing the people who run Google, check out Bart Nagel Photography, nothing very personal, he's no Annie Leibovitz, but you can catch the projected rays alright.
Tags: Spam, Google, Technorati, Two Tier, DARPA, ARPANET, Jon Postel, Steve Crocker, Vint Cerf.
My inboxes are about 90% spam. I have read some statistics that say 40% of all email traffic is spam. For the sake of argument, let's say it's half-and-half.
(photo of Jon Postel, Steve Crocker, and Vint Cerf, in the ARPANET days)There is talk these days about a two-tiered internet coming along. First of all, as anyone knows, it is already here - nevermind the corporate world where you can buy speed with T1s, even among the hoi-polloi there is DSL and other wide-er band access, and there is dial-up. This has negative effects - everyone has had an email saying, "please don't send big pictures, they take too long to download," no? The purpose of all this is to communicate, right?
One of the originators weighs in against the notion in an article in Register: Vint Cerf condemns two-tier internet.The web is an animal that grows by eating its' tail - more that use it, more value to using it, more reason to invest in the hardware and software that supports it (in the hope of monetization to come). Rather than "if we build it, they will come", it seems to be "if they come, and if we can find the money, we will build it."
Look at Google and Technorati. The main Google Search servers are remarkably strong, they almost never seem to be down; but some of their growth areas, Gmail and Blogger for example, are not so strong, quite often either sluggish or off the air altogether. Technorati is growing geometrically, you can tell because it is at least 24 hours between Tag updates, sometimes several days, and it is regularly so slow searching as to be useless.
Does "50% of email is spam" mean that it uses 50% of the resources? Probably not, maybe someone who reads this can tell me.
Would not simply bouncing spam eliminate it fairly quickly? The spammers don't want to waste their time - I presume that when they get a bounce, they take that address out of their list. Putting a 'bounce tool' in the hands of end-users would do it eh? And would this not reduce the pressure for an officially two-tiered system?
Vannevar Bush / J.C.R. Licklider / Larry Roberts / Paul Baran / Bob Metcalfe / Doug Engelbart / Ted Nelson / Tim Berners-Lee / Marc Andreesen
The motivations and principles of these guys are interesting. Something that caught my eye was this: "A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.", from Ted Nelson; I think we missed the boat on that one.
If you are interested in seeing the people who run Google, check out Bart Nagel Photography, nothing very personal, he's no Annie Leibovitz, but you can catch the projected rays alright.
Tags: Spam, Google, Technorati, Two Tier, DARPA, ARPANET, Jon Postel, Steve Crocker, Vint Cerf.
