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Comment by oliverkofoed | Hacker News Reader

I can't help but wonder why they didn't try harder to fix spam. As far as i've been able to tell, it'll be same-old/same-old: Mark as spam, possibly automatic filters.

It seems to me that part of the answer to the question "What would e-mail look like if invented today" should be "there would be no spam".

Couldn't it be done by request/approve like on Skype/Facebook or something more advanced like reputation or something?

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having talked to the guys on the Wave Team, it is clear that they are still trying to figure these things out. They are just now opening it up to more users and seeing usage scenarios they didn't even think of themselves. I'm guessing spam wasn't really an issue they had to deal with so far, and from what I've seen, there really is no spam on the site yet. Also, given that you invite your own contacts to join a 'wave,' chances are, spam won't be a huge problem as far as I can see.

Discussion on the subject of spam. Where Andrew Ower (Google) says:

  We're fully aware that any platform that achieves 
  critical mass will be subject to abuse and are working 
  to prevent this from troubling users.

http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api/browse_thread...

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