Yeah.. the whole concept of e-mail is rapidly becoming unusable.
I still like my 'wishful thinking' apprach to dealing with spam. That is -- fine the companies that advertise with spam. I mean... the companies have GOT to be paying SOMEONE to send all this out and if they're giving you their contact info in the spam it should be easy enough to find the source.
Some places 'claim' their stuff isn't spam and if you e-mail a certain address they'll stop sending stuff to you -- how often is this really the case and how often instead is this a 'flag' that you're indeed a real person and that they should send you MORE spam?
Someone else mentioned this concept although he didn't use the term Joe Jobbing. Yes, this is a drawback but at least you'd have corporate power behind the effort to find and stop such spammers as opposed to having corporate power behind the effort to CREATE such spam.
However this is still pretty wishful thinking. In reality:
1) a lot of this crap comes from overseas ... what are we going to do about that -- declare a 'War on Spam' and start bombing Nigeria? (actually that wouldn't be a bad idea either ... certainly more useful than this 'war on terror')
2) instead of corporate power to stop spam you'd end up with corporate power to overturn that law.
Actually, I wouldn't mind having ALL FOREIGN email shutdown. Seriously, block it with the firewall. These days, I really don't do much overseas communication -- it's not like in the grand ol' days.
There are some massive offenders (US) that are spamming me. I have addresses and names. I have proof that I have told them to stop. All I need is power to wield an attorney at this point and some spare time.
Too bad you weren't still working for the Evil One out west. This could be your new business plan. What are the damages, like $200 per email or something?
My Gmail account has 4911 spam messages (it deletes them after 30 days). (And I now forward all mail to any of my addresses to Gmail.) But at least only about 3 or 4 per day slip through their filters so that I have to manually refile.
Yeah--I don't get this either. I've been active on the web for a decade, and had the same e-mail address for most of that time, which up until a year or two ago was available in public on a fairly major website. But I get maybe a dozen spams a day on an account with zero spam filtering. Some of my other accounts get more (my yahoo account gets a few dozen a day, all trapped by their spam filter) but nothing like 200 a day.
Aparently my talent for invisibility extends even to cyberspace.
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Date: 2006-01-27 05:59 pm (UTC)I still like my 'wishful thinking' apprach to dealing with spam. That is -- fine the companies that advertise with spam. I mean... the companies have GOT to be paying SOMEONE to send all this out and if they're giving you their contact info in the spam it should be easy enough to find the source.
Some places 'claim' their stuff isn't spam and if you e-mail a certain address they'll stop sending stuff to you -- how often is this really the case and how often instead is this a 'flag' that you're indeed a real person and that they should send you MORE spam?
The only problem is...
Date: 2006-01-27 06:33 pm (UTC)But of course, I've said many times: Email -- dead. Email is at its limit under current infrastructure for expansion or modification.
Re: The only problem is...
Date: 2006-01-27 08:37 pm (UTC)However this is still pretty wishful thinking. In reality:
1) a lot of this crap comes from overseas ... what are we going to do about that -- declare a 'War on Spam' and start bombing Nigeria? (actually that wouldn't be a bad idea either ... certainly more useful than this 'war on terror')
2) instead of corporate power to stop spam you'd end up with corporate power to overturn that law.
Re: The only problem is...
Date: 2006-01-27 09:08 pm (UTC)Actually, I wouldn't mind having ALL FOREIGN email shutdown. Seriously, block it with the firewall. These days, I really don't do much overseas communication -- it's not like in the grand ol' days.
There are some massive offenders (US) that are spamming me. I have addresses and names. I have proof that I have told them to stop. All I need is power to wield an attorney at this point and some spare time.
Re: The only problem is...
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Date: 2006-01-28 01:48 am (UTC)Seriously though, what are you guys doing on the web? I get maybe two spam per day at best. Perhaps it's just because I don't shop online...
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Date: 2006-01-28 04:52 am (UTC)Yeah--I don't get this either. I've been active on the web for a decade, and had the same e-mail address for most of that time, which up until a year or two ago was available in public on a fairly major website. But I get maybe a dozen spams a day on an account with zero spam filtering. Some of my other accounts get more (my yahoo account gets a few dozen a day, all trapped by their spam filter) but nothing like 200 a day.
Aparently my talent for invisibility extends even to cyberspace.
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Date: 2006-02-01 01:43 am (UTC)You're not alone.
(Opps, forgot a quote mark.)