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Why is spam bad?
Q. Why do we get soooo upset when we receive E-mail which was not requested?
There are several reasons:
The free ride. E-mail spam is unique in that the receiver pays so much more
for it than the sender does. For example, AOL has said that they were
receiving 1.8 million spams from Cyber Promotions per day until they got a
court injunction to stop it. Assuming that it takes the typical AOL user
only 10 seconds to identify and discard a message, that's still 5,000 hours
per day of connect time per day spent discarding their spam, just on AOL. By
contrast, the spammer probably has a T1 line that costs him about $100/day.
No other kind of advertising costs the advertiser so little, and the
recipient so much. The closest analogy I can think of would be auto-dialing
junk phone calls to cellular users; you can imagine how favorably that might
be received.
The ``oceans of spam'' problem. Many spam messages say ``please send a
REMOVE message to get off our list.'' Even disregarding the question of why
you should have to do anything to get off a list you never asked to join,
this becomes completely impossible if the volume grows. At the moment, most
of us only get a few spams per day. But imagine if only 1/10 of 1 % of the
users on the Internet decided to send out spam at a moderate rate of 100,000
per day, a rate easily achievable with a dial-up account and a PC. Then
everyone would be receiving 100 spams every day. If 1% of users were
spamming at that rate, we'd all be getting 1,000 spams per day. Is it
reasonable to ask people to send out 100 ``remove'' messages per day?
Hardly. If spam grows, it will crowd our mailboxes to the point that they're
not useful for real mail. Users on AOL, which has a lot of trouble with
internal spammers, report that they're already nearing this point.
The theft of resources. An increasing number of spammers, such as Quantum
Communications, send most or all of their mail via innocent intermediate
systems, to avoid blocks that many systems have placed against mail coming
directly from the spammers' systems. (Due to a historical quirk, most mail
systems on the Internet will deliver mail to anyone, not just their own
users.) This fills the intermediate systems' networks and disks with
unwanted spam messages, takes up their managers' time dealing with all the
undeliverable spam messages, and subjects them to complaints from recipients
who conclude that since the intermediate system delivered the mail, they
must be in league with the spammers.
Many other spammers use ``hit and run'' spamming in which they get a trial
dial-up account at an Internet provider for a few days, send tens of
thousands of messages, then abandon the account (unless the provider notices
what they're doing and cancels it first), leaving the unsuspecting provider
to clean up the mess. Many spammers have done this tens or dozens of times,
forcing the providers to waste staff time both on the cleanup and on
monitoring their trial accounts for abuse.
It's all garbage. The spam messages I've seen have almost without exception
advertised stuff that's worthless, deceptive, and partly or entirely
fraudulent. (I include the many MLMs in here, even though the MLM-ers rarely
understand why there's no such thing as a good MLM.) It's spam software,
funky miracle cures, off-brand computer parts, vaguely described get rich
quick schemes, dial-a-porn, and so on downhill from there. It's all stuff
that's too cruddy to be worth advertising in any medium where they'd
actually have to pay the cost of the ads. Also, since the cost of spamming
is so low, there's no point in targeting your ads, when for the same low
price you can send the ads to everyone, increasing the noise level the rest
of us have to deal with.
They're crooks. Spam software invariably comes with a list of names falsely
claimed to be of people who've said they want to receive ads, but actually
consisting of unwilling victims culled at random from usenet or mailing
lists. Spam software often promises to run on a provider's system in a way
designed to be hard for the provider to detect so they can't tell what the
spammer is doing. Spams invariably say they'll remove names on request, but
they almost never do. Indeed, people report that when they send a test
``remove'' request from a newly created account,, the usually start to
receive spam at that address.
Spammers know that people don't want to hear from them, and generally put
fake return addresses on their messages so that they don't have to bear the
cost of receiving responses from people to whom they've send messages.
Whenever possible, they use the ``disposable'' trial ISP accounts mentioned
above so the ISP bears the cost of cleaning up after them. I could go on,
but you get the idea. It's hard to think of another line of business where
the general ethical level is so low.
It might be illegal. Some kinds of spam are illegal in some countries on the
Internet. Especially with pornography, mere possession of such material can
be enough to put the recipient in jail. In the United States, child
pornography is highly illegal and we've already seen spammed child porn
offers.
Any one of these six would be enough to make me pretty unhappy about getting
junk e-mail. Put them together and it's intolerable.
Spammers do more than spam
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John Levine / Trumansburg NY / Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
Dummies" and Information Superhighwayman wanna-be
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