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I read stuff like this (Kling not Weinberger) and amazed at how quickly people forget the other important thing about the internet - it is three dimensional. We have the "Inside-Out" that Saltzer, Reed & Clark dubbed the "End-to-End Principle". *BUT* We also have the Bottom-to-Top that we call "the Seven Layer Model" - these aren't different ways of looking at the same thing, they are different parts of the same thing. This gives the 'net the dimensions that it needs to perpetuate itself.

See this post as it first appeared on the original site.

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  1. Arnold Kling, March 16, 2003

    True, but doing spam filtering "at points within the network" would mean going from SMTP to CMTP (Complicated Mail Transport Protocol), wouldn't it? And what might be the costs and unintended consequences of doing that?