[ih] Unhappy with the free service (was Re: The UCLA 360/91 on the ARPAnet/Internet)

[jcurran at istaff.org (John Curran)]

On May 14, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Jack Haverty wrote:
> With all the technology and expertise that's been working on
> The Internet over the last 3+ decades, why haven't we made more
> progress in email?    
> 
> What happened, or failed to happen, to cause the world of spam,
> phishing, malware, et al that we suffer today?  That might be an
> enlightening history topic, if anybody's interested.

We provided no systematically effective recourse against bad actors 
within the Internet system, and insufficient association between 
Internet entities and "real world" entities (i.e. people, companies)
to allow for any meaningful legal recourse.

Ut sementem feceris ita metes,
/John