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If software vendors and security companies don't get their act together and start producing better products, users will begin dropping off the Internet out of sheer frustration, predicted John Thompson, chairman and CEO of Symantec Corp., in his keynote speech at Comdex here Wednesday.
The solution proposed by John Thompson (i.e. blocking emails from someone who sends 100.000 of them on the provider side) is worth being thought about. At least until spammers find a way of circumventing that, which they eventually will.
A digital signature system prevents anyone from sending you a free email where they are not in your "white-list". If they still want to send you a mail, they pay a small charge.
On receipt of that email you then have the option to add them to your "white list".
No idea what the charges would be - I would think 5 pence would be about right. Low enough that most people won't worry too much about it - high enough that the spammer who sends out 5 million emails a week can no longer do so for free.
TJ
Everyone should get a spamcop account and also repost spam to them as frequently as you can. I do that every day.
More references to spam killing email.
Does anyone read history?
People won't use automobiles because they're too noisy and smelly. Telephones? What? Who wants to listen to people talk? Telegrams are fine and it is simply impossible to string wire to everyone's home.
In the 70's the demise of the automobile was predicted because the world was running out of oil. In the 30's the end of the world was predicted because world agriculture couldn't support the projected population increase that would occur by the 1950s. Strangely, you can find doom and gloom predicted throughout history. Usually by Malthusian scaremongers. Unfortunately, fear is still the great motivator and CEOs aren't above using fear to hawk their products.
The demise of the internet has been predicted so many times that it has become humorous.
The web is still the wild, wild west for many more years to come. It's no longer in its infancy but its still a child growing up. The software world is only slightly more grown up but its still far from being mature. There will always be problems, but there will always be options.
The only thing that is true,is that we have lost the innocence of the internet.
First you would get your number off any phone directories, but when that doesn't help, you would eventually stop answering the damn thing and find another way to communicate.
And thus was born the answering machine and when peeps grew tired of the answering machine getting filled with nonsense, caller ID, call waiting, call zapper, etc., etc.
Whenever there is a need for a better mousetrap, someone will build it in hopes the masses flock to it.
And it's not always even profit based. On a freebie Y! account I've held onto, the spam detection is far superior to what it was 5 years back.
And it's not always even profit based. On a freebie Y! account I've held onto, the spam detection is far superior to what it was 5 years back.
Actually, that is profit based...my point being that, as someone said, there's money in providing better and better services, even if they're "free".
The Internet is becoming more central to daily life for more Americans, according to anew surveyNo mention of global internet usage.
More [blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com]
And this:
The online presence of Americans aged 65 and older jumped 25 percent this year, to a total of almost 10 million surfers, while 55- to 64-year-olds upped their numbers by 15 percent, to almost 16 million, according to a new study by Nielsen//NetRatings, a market research firm.
More [cbs.marketwatch.com]
My point exactly! The only reason people spam is because spam is profitable.
