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Spam Increases Make Things Tough For Companies

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the to-say-nothing-of-little-old-me dept.

dosten sent us a link to a story running on Cnet about the spam epidemic. My favorite stat is that by 2006, we'll be getting 1400 spam a year. Of course, I already get that every week. Talks about foreign spam relays, block lists, and so on. Decent piece explaining a huge problem that's only getting worse.

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  1. Re:Editors don't even read the articles by raydobbs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But that would actually imply him READING the article, something that's sooooo passe for the Slashdot crowd.

    It's been my experience that Slashdot likes to incite it's readers, not actually inform them. Such a monumental waste of a large readership - you can bet sites like The New York Times wish they had those numbers...

  2. ok shut up now taco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I've had enough. Spam is legal internet traffic. You cannot stand for Anti-Spam laws while cursing the DMCA and laughing at anti-portscan laws. So shut up with your 'spam sucks' bullshit. You suck. Go write an email client that works with djb's email 2000 protocol instead of whining to the police because someone sent some email. Technical problems are *not* to be solved by legislation. Pushing against spam is pushing for 1984.