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Spam is Bad -- And Getting Worse
Posted by Paul Szynol on Monday, December 02 @ 18:10:18 EST News
According to Jupiter Research, if you are an average American Internet user, this year you will have received 2,200 spam messages; and, by 2007, that number will increase by 1400 messages to 3600.

Despite efforts to control spammers, Yahoo reports, spam has increased from 8 percent of all email to 40 percent.

Problems with controlling spam--filters miss mispelled words; blacklists are not exhaustive; spam is global, so the number of sources is high and difficult to monitor/control; spam passes through unsecured servers.

Spam, in other words, is technologically difficult to control, and analysts think that legal rather than technical regulation will have more impact. "While spammers are hard to track down and prosecute, you get a few of them and it will scare off others," said one analyst.

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Re: Spam is Bad -- And Getting Worse (Score: 0)
by Anonymous (Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel) on Tuesday, December 03 @ 10:29:04 EST
Although i'm no fan of junk mail (whether it's electronic or physical) I don't see any difference between spam and traditional junk mail. Why should spam be made illegal when the U.S. PO delivers lots of junk mail to my door every day? Is anyone calling for the elimination of bulk mail rates? Neither one thrills me. Get rid of them both or leave both alone and let the market sort them out.

I do have one exception to this, I don't recieve sexually explicit junk mail and I don't want to recieve it as spam. Eventually my children will be using email to talk with their friends and they don't need that sort of junk in their inbox. Of course, I can filter and do so i'm not sure that even that rises to the level of requiring new legislation at "any" level.



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