Let hope its a good one.
Spam is getting to be a major problem. I've just created a graph of my spam stats. This is the spam that is detected by my second level filter, the first level ditches the outright outrageous stuff at the server. Its a depressing trend.
As you can see there was a blip in mid 2004, which is because I mistakenly starting receiving email to all made up names on my email domain. Getting rid of this reduced the tidal wave. However the trend is visibly upwards, and I have just crossed the 66% boundary last month.
Is email going to be killed by the amount of spam?
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Gotta admit I've noticed a significant increase in spam recently and that's despite all server & desktop level countermeasures, though how much is getting trashed at server level I haven't bothered to check. Are you filtering in your mail client? How effective is it at detection/rejection or are you includeing your trashes in this figure?
It's annoying that there must be enough people responding to spam to justify the continued sending of mass amounts of crap - and quite often the emails have nothing in them! So why is that?
I hope we don't have to get to the postage method whereby every email has a cost to deliver - OK It would hopefully mean less noise more signal and maybe improve the efficiency & effectiveness of people's writing, but...
...ah, big old subject. Could go on about this for hours but there's a hefty old project deadline looming...
Posted by Lever | February 3, 2006 1:02 PM
Posted on February 3, 2006 13:02