Spam Wars - People are getting killed now!

Hell Puppy · 08-07-2003

You can make stats paint any picture you like.

Spam IS a real problem. Hell, I get on average about 2400 spams a day now. SpamAssassin takes care of most of them. A significant number still slip thru. What's worse is I occasionally miss a legitimate email that gets filtered and thrown out with the trash because I cant really manually scan 2000+ messages.

I'm unusual in that I have keep email addresses forever, my oldest is over 10 years old. Some are posted publicly too, so I get absolutely slammed.

Spam is unavoidable if you want customers, clients and/or friends to be able to easily find your email address. Spam is also an infrastructure challenge for major providers and ISPs. A provider such as Earthlink or Comcast has to maintain twice the SMTP and POP3 capacity that they would need for legitimate mail just to handle all of the unwanted spam.

I hate to add government involvement to anything though. Government is already too big. Spam ultimately needs to be addressed with technology. A good step toward solving the problem would be simply requiring email authentication and making the system spoof proof so the sender could always be identified and accountable.

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08-07-2003	#1
Hell Puppy Fat Fucking Nobody Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 6,523	You can make stats paint any picture you like. Spam IS a real problem. Hell, I get on average about 2400 spams a day now. SpamAssassin takes care of most of them. A significant number still slip thru. What's worse is I occasionally miss a legitimate email that gets filtered and thrown out with the trash because I cant really manually scan 2000+ messages. I'm unusual in that I have keep email addresses forever, my oldest is over 10 years old. Some are posted publicly too, so I get absolutely slammed. Spam is unavoidable if you want customers, clients and/or friends to be able to easily find your email address. Spam is also an infrastructure challenge for major providers and ISPs. A provider such as Earthlink or Comcast has to maintain twice the SMTP and POP3 capacity that they would need for legitimate mail just to handle all of the unwanted spam. I hate to add government involvement to anything though. Government is already too big. Spam ultimately needs to be addressed with technology. A good step toward solving the problem would be simply requiring email authentication and making the system spoof proof so the sender could always be identified and accountable.