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Beat Spam By Not Using Email

Posted by michael on from the works-for-me dept.

judgecorp writes "We had a press release - by post of course - about a scheme that eradicates spam and viruses. It's not email, oh no. It's digital mail or dmail, a private system that no one else can send messages to. Assuming it's genuine (and the PR person is called Mike Hardware) it uses XML and SQL to build a 1980s bulletin board, to sell to niche markets (such as very close-knit families). Our story is here, and if you don't hear from us again, it's because we are busy emailing ourselves with our two free dmail addresses. Peter Judge, Techworld"

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  1. Re:eMail replacement. by bobintetley · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IMHO completely dropping email as we have it now is the only way against spam. No matter what's been done so far has kept existing email infrastructure as legacy. A new extension on top of email might get some play, but it's all irrelevant while the same system is still able to be used for spam.

    This comes up every time someone mentions spam. You simply cannot have a decentralised, free, messaging system without a small minority of people abusing it.

    Think of it as the price you pay for having a decentralised, free line of communication. This is a social rather than technological problem and I'd rather have spam than a tightly controlled mail solution that could be taken away from me or cost me more money.