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Originally Posted by RosieD
1) 5)what is government doing about spam?
From the US it is illegal, but they can't stop it from elsewhere.
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The biggest problem with spam is there is so much of it out there it slows down and clutters up the internet by using resources which could be otherwise employed. I read somewhere that over 80% of mail traffic is spam, but I cannot verify this. Another interesting fact is it may be on the statute books as illegal in the US, but I notice every time a hurricane hits the US east coast, spam drops in my mailbox for a few days.
ISP's providing blanket filters from known spamming addresses can also cause problems to innocent mail senders if their email address has been hijacked. On a personal level I have a problem when in Greece emailing anyone with a tiscali or BTconnect email address, the ISPs have banned Greek IP's, there are a couple of other smaller ISP's which off the top of my head I cannot recall. It's a real pain.
On a very personal level I would happily shoot both knee caps of all who use spam as a marketing tool, without compunction.
That said we are our own downfall as too many cannot resist the temptation to open and read it (my own partner included) and then click on the links. By doing this you confirm an active email address thus propagate the spam culture and your own spam increases. If we all just deleted spam as it comes in it would stop. Why bother if it does not work. Sadly we are by nature curious and that tag line got us interested.........
Spam succeeds on the Internet because of one thing only, as individuals we are all unique thus unpredictable. As a Species (Homo Sapiens) we are all 100% totally predictable.
/Astro