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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Can this new move actually slow down spam?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The more I’ve learned about spam over the years the more cynical I get about ever stopping it. Like income taxes, the poor and traffic jams it’ll always be with us.
But that doesn’t mean we should run up the white flag and surrender to the stuff.
There’s a new move that - if adopted, heck there are a lot of ifs in this one - may make a noticeable difference in the amount of spam you receive. So it’s worth reading about - and you can do that here.
I said there are a lot of ifs. Among them are the fact that, to work, this system would have to be almost universally adopted by Internet providers. Another problem is that it would do nothing to stop ‘legitimate’ spam … junk e-mail from real companies.
However, I still think it’s a move in the right direction. It would make a big dent in mail from outright crooks and would even allow Internet providers to identify folks who send out phiser e-mail (you know what that is by now … the scam that involves sending out what seems to be a note from a bank or other legitimate business … designed to steal your money or your identity).
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