Another Side-Effect of Spam

ghostie writes: "According to this article on news.com.au Telstra (Australias largest Telco) is having some problems with email blacklist operators. They claim that large (previously unused) portions of it's IP range have been black-listed even though they have never been used before. It seems the direct-action approach to stopping spam is having a detrimental effect as well. When will it all stop?"

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[tps12]

Email used to be the best way of communicating.

These days, the web takes up far more of people's time. Email is used primarily for mailing lists (which could be replaced by webboards), chain letters, and virus propogation (neither of which should be replaced by anything!).

But email's time has come. It just doesn't scale. Personally, I never use email. IM clients are much faster, and everything else can be done through the web.

Email just wasn't designed to be used outside of a single system with mere dozens of users. Its presence in the modern Internet is due to inertia, not good design.

We will always remember email fondly, but with the knowledge that it is an archaic technology better left behind.

Just my $0.02.