Re:Spam blacklisting is out of control
by jart on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:11PM
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The open internet is dead. Spammers, fraudsters, and abusers have killed it. I can see how you might hate me, but I only speak the truth. Once upon a time the Internet consisted of a bunch of anonymous university students and u.s. government, Bell, IBM, etc. employees doing unfettered research. Today the Internet consists of anonymous grifters trying to squeeze a buck out of you any way they can.
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Re:Spam blacklisting is out of control
by Silhouette on Saturday February 05, 2022 @08:21PM
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The open internet is dead. Spammers, fraudsters, and abusers have killed it.
I don't accept that. Nothing about defending against those threats requires the kind of guilt-by-association spam blocking we have been discussing.
There will always be bad people in the world but that doesn't mean we allow some random big business to tell us where we may go, what we may do or who we may talk to because it is in that business's interests and (coincidentally or otherwise) it might make us safer.
I hope to see bitmessage supplant email for many use cases.
It is decentralized and has built-in mechanisms to fight spam. Also all messages are end-to-end encrypted.
Despite the name it has nothing to do with bitcoin or cryptocurrency.