I have posted before that introducing a bit of bureaucracy is the best way to control spam. B'cracy kills any enterprise. (It was modded as funny although that wasn't my intent).
The article linked to above suggests steps in the same direction although baby ones.
Ask people to fill forms in triplicate, deposit a refundable amount with the ISP and only then would you be allowed to send emails. Introduce a bit more red tape with emailing and that will be the end of frivolous emails and spam.
As it is, even at workplace everyone CCs everyone else, you get emails of births, promotions, checkin notices, build notices, resignations, business deals, mailing lists and what not.
We should seriously consider limiting the number of email even ordinarily (i.e. without spam in the picture) and the amount of information thrown our way or failing that attaching an external storage and processing device to our brains.
I went to Verisign's terms of use page
http://sitefinder.verisign.com/terms.jsp
and there is not agree or disagree button.
There must be a way to disagree and once disagreed Verisign mustn't take us to their search page.
However, even prior to the question of agree-disagree comes the fact that Verisign has given us opt-in by default. That is, anyone who mistypes a URL agrees to be taken to their page.
This is another version of spam. Block them!
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The article linked to above suggests steps in the same direction although baby ones.
Ask people to fill forms in triplicate, deposit a refundable amount with the ISP and only then would you be allowed to send emails. Introduce a bit more red tape with emailing and that will be the end of frivolous emails and spam.
As it is, even at workplace everyone CCs everyone else, you get emails of births, promotions, checkin notices, build notices, resignations, business deals, mailing lists and what not.
We should seriously consider limiting the number of email even ordinarily (i.e. without spam in the picture) and the amount of information thrown our way or failing that attaching an external storage and processing device to our brains.
I went to Verisign's terms of use page http://sitefinder.verisign.com/terms.jsp and there is not agree or disagree button. There must be a way to disagree and once disagreed Verisign mustn't take us to their search page. However, even prior to the question of agree-disagree comes the fact that Verisign has given us opt-in by default. That is, anyone who mistypes a URL agrees to be taken to their page. This is another version of spam. Block them!