A commentator on my recent entry brought up D. J.Bernstein's Internet Mail 2000 as apossible cure for phish spam. The defining characteristic of IM2000 isthat the sender, not the recipient, stores the message; the recipientmerely retrieves it when they want to read it.Let's set aside all of the practical issues with sender storage schemesand ask a simple question: will they actually work to stop phish spam?Unfortunately, the answer is no. If

This is not the Internet that we used to have, and so email is not whatit used to be; now it is less . So I think thatwe need (or could do with) some principles of email for the modern ageof the Internet, things that can guide people writing applications thatmight use email as part of their interactions with the world.

Now, a disclaimer: people are going to have different views of this. Myview is a tired and somewhat cynical anti-spam biased one,

Here's an important hint for operators of web spiders:

If I have to touch robots.txt or my web server configuration to dealwith your spider's behavior, the easiest and safest change is to blockyou entirely.

It is therefor very much in the interests of web spider operatorsto keep me from ever having to touch my robots.txt file in thefirst place, because you are not Google .You should consider things like crawl-delay to be desperate lastditch workarounds, not things that you