Spam Increases Make Things Tough For Companies

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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Law makers might realize the problem.

[www.sorehands.com]

Maybe after seeing this lawmakers will realize the extent of the problem.

The Chinese government ignored SPAM problems, until enough people blacklisted China and then they took notice.

Maybe we should forward all the spam that we receive to congress, with a little note attached. Maybe they would take notice, then.

How profitable is spam?

[Yoda2]

I know its cheap, but I'm really curious to see how much spammers really profit from their ads. There has to be a certain profile for the person who really believes that they can enlarge their penis by "clicking here".

Maybe the spammers should focus on only AOL addresses since their members seem to like daily solicitation, and leave the rest of us alone!

Re:Solving the spam problem?

[nucal]

There is a variety of heavy machinery that could be used to result in a much larger (but paper thin) penis.

Yeah, I think that one comes from Acme!

Re:I block Asia, Russia and other places

[alexburke]

I also have one for cdnow.com@offwhite.net, cnn.com@offwhite.net, etc. When I sign up for a newsletter or post comments I will know where the incoming spam originated.

What you've just done is totally b0rk your scheme.

Spammers are obviously scraping this site.

And you know about it.

Brilliant.

Now, when you get spam to your CDNow or CNN aliases, you won't know where they really came from.

Idiot...