Victory against spam?

Posted Sep 21, 2005 19:39 UTC (Wed) by copsewood (subscriber, #199)
In reply to: Victory against spam? by kitterma
Parent article: Victory against spam?

I agree that the CSV standard won't help reduce spam much in the short term - nor will any other genuine SMTP infrastructure improvement help in the short term. A realistic timescale is about 24 months to develop and debug a standard and combine or differentiate it from similar proposals. It will then take about another 12 months to include it into mainstream products and demonstrate it stable enough to improve life for early adopters. Another 12 months to persuade most potential mainstream adopters that they will be left behind if they don't adopt it, and a further 12 months to mop up the mess the late adopters find themselves in. About 5 years in total is a more realistic estimate for how long something requiring cooperation of hundreds of programmers and tens of thousands of mail and DNS administrators will take.