Re:Google Wave and Spam
by roc on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @03:36PM
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That was my understanding as well; that it would effectively work just like GChat (where spam certainly exists, but is a trivial problem).
TFAuthor dismissed that as a non-option, because it would make Wave unsuitable for collecting unsolicited feedback and sales contacts.
But it seems to me that a single Wave account that auto-whitelisted contact attempts would solve that problem at the cost of reintroducing some capacity to spam, but at a vastly reduced level.
Simply applying existing tools and leveraging the other benefits of Wave over SMTP would seem to seriously marginalize spam as a concern.
TFAuthor dismissed that as a non-option, because it would make Wave unsuitable for collecting unsolicited feedback and sales contacts.
But it seems to me that a single Wave account that auto-whitelisted contact attempts would solve that problem at the cost of reintroducing some capacity to spam, but at a vastly reduced level.
Simply applying existing tools and leveraging the other benefits of Wave over SMTP would seem to seriously marginalize spam as a concern.