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From the page that says what the Lamson project is about (emphasis mine):

"I’m always looking for people doing interesting things with e-mail. Even if you’re a spammer, or someone trying to destroy the spammers, I want to hear from you" (Zed Shaw, maintainer of the Lamson project).



He's made the point before that any advance in email technology will be primarily used for spam.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/03/lamson/print.html

"I totally think Lamson will be used more for spam than for anything really useful. My hope with Lamson is that it acts like a modern sewage system for the internet. Everyone's gotta poop. You can't escape it, so why not try to do it in a clean fashion that improves the general health of everyone involved?"


He's also said that he hopes it will mean spammers end up better at targeting so that there will be less shit flowing overall.


Makes sense. The huge amount of backscatter ain't helping anyone




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