Thanks for mentioning this, Andy - it's very interesting, much like the article in Scientific American last month which did a fairly good job of explaining SPAM. I continuously wonder why RSS isn't used instead of email; it's inherently less prone to SPAM. I wrote about that about a year ago, but I think it may be time to revisit it.
Andy Carvin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The AP has a story today about how official govt emergency email > alerts to florida residents during the three devastating hurricanes > last autumn were blocked as spam by AOL. The company is now working to > resolve this issue for future emergencies, but it raises some > interesting questions about how govt agencies, ISPs and mobile phone > providers need to work together to ensure that emergency notifications > get handled accurately promptly. > > http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050502/ap_on_hi_te/emergency_spam > > > I wrote about the story in my blog as well: > > http://www.andycarvin.com/ > permalink: > http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2005/05/ensuring_that_g.html > -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: Panama City, Panama [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxgazette.com http://www.a42.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
