<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>My focus here was not on spam except as an indicator of the number of bogus online pharmacies.</div><div><br></div><div>Ok WHO might be a viable registry for such a TLD, but I don't recall it coming out with an application to operate it, and the only governmental objection I recall was the EU. <br><a href="http://domainincite.com/11130-europe-rejects-icanns-authority-as-it-warns-of-problems-with-58-new-gtlds">http://domainincite.com/11130-europe-rejects-icanns-authority-as-it-warns-of-problems-with-58-new-gtlds</a></div><div><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 21-Jul-2014, at 22:46, Barry Shein <<a href="mailto:bzs@world.std.com">bzs@world.std.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span>From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">suresh@hserus.net</a>></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>One undeniable fact, unfortunately, is that the number of scam artists enga=</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>ged in selling ,education online, often without proper prescriptions, is fa=</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>r higher than the number of legitimate online medicine stores. You might =</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>think back to the amount of spam you receive that advertises virility pills=</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>, or even controlled drugs such as steroids and narcotics.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>I believe we need to move beyond this old notion that the problem with</span><br><span>spam in particular is limited to the unscrupulous.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Certainly the unscrupulous are an easy target, who would defend</span><br><span>sinners?</span><br><span></span><br><span>But we have created this notion that if someone is of the acceptable</span><br><span>(business) class then other than some superficial and almost never</span><br><span>enforced notion that they must have a business relationship with you</span><br><span>they can send email etc without limit or (effectively) cost.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Meanwhile email has become almost as useless as a medium due to</span><br><span>so-called "legitimate" email as unscrupulous.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I have scripts which delete almost everything commercial unless I have</span><br><span>some very specific expectation of a useful message, such as an open</span><br><span>business order.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I have to, I get one to two thousand messages a day.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I'm sure I'm not unique in this regard.</span><br><span></span><br><span>The current conventions (they're mostly conventions) say, for example,</span><br><span>that if I have my car insured with BigCo insurance then every one of</span><br><span>their 100,000 worldwide agents has legitimate access to my mail box to</span><br><span>pitch life insurance, financial instruments, etc, anything really, if</span><br><span>they sold toothpaste they could pitch toothpaste.</span><br><span></span><br><span>The only practical limit seems to be that each company individually</span><br><span>tries to figure out how much would so annoying that I might ignore</span><br><span>them entirely.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Which is of limited comfort when there are thousands and thousands of</span><br><span>"legitimate" companies.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I may be a little ahead of the curve on this but I see this rising</span><br><span>tide of corporations discovering exactly what motivated the</span><br><span>"unscrupulous": They can send literally a billion messages per day for</span><br><span>almost no incremental cost.</span><br><span></span><br><span>It's a big, complex subject but I think we will soon be due for a sea</span><br><span>change in thinking regarding this entire topic.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Merely focusing on the "unscrupulous" will be insufficient as</span><br><span>end-users try to sort through thousands of completely uncoordinated</span><br><span>and seemingly unlimited emails from the "scrupulous".</span><br><span></span><br><span>What drives spammers is the free advertising.</span><br><span></span><br><span>But that might drive anyone. And, as we see, it does.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span> -Barry Shein</span><br><span></span><br><span>The World | <a href="mailto:bzs@TheWorld.com">bzs@TheWorld.com</a> | <a href="http://www.TheWorld.com">http://www.TheWorld.com</a></span><br><span>Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada</span><br><span>Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>