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Seriously?
by colinplamondon 15y ago
Seriously?
- prodigal_erik 15y agoOf course. Email is the main immediate worldwide communication medium that isn't under the arbitrary control of one private owner. Spam is an existential threat to that, which makes it pretty much unforgivable. It's the price of a free society (and here's where I try to remind myself that really is worthwhile) that we can't impose an http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/Internet-Death-Penalty.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/Internet-Death-Penalty.htm..., but if we had some legitimate way to pull the plug on these douches today I surely would.
- fuzzmeister 15y agoHow is spam an existential threat to email? Spam filters have gotten exceptionally good, to the point where I find it hard to believe that anyone using a decent filter receives enough true spam in their inbox to make them stop using email altogether.
- dreamdu5t 15y agoIf you don't think so, please post your email here for us.
- fuzzmeister 15y agoMultiple of my email addresses posted online unmasked multiple times, so I certainly get spam. My point is that filters are quite effective.
- warp 15y agoI still get spam in my inbox regularly. I'm using google postini to do the filtering, in my situation I wouldn't classify it as "quite effective". Are there better alternatives I am not aware of?
- EGreg 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_techniques
- fuzzmeister 15y agoI use the default GMail filters - perhaps I'm just lucky and receive easily filtered spam. I get hundreds of spam messages per day, and none break through on the average day.
- prodigal_erik 15y agoHundreds a day sounds plausible. So with that much crap to wade through, how long does it take to finally discover and rescue false positives from the spam folder?
- kwis 15y agoThe spam filters today are good not because of magic, but because billions of dollars have been spent securing email. What a complete and utter waste of resources.
- KevinMS 15y agoUnseen cost of all that filtering. And for how long is it going to keep up with spammers? Oh and all the false positives that are a nightmare for so many legit uses.