There was an interesting article on spam in today's (Thursday 21 March 2002) http://slashdot.org, which gave some interesting projections on the level of spam likely in the next few years. There was a prediction that by 2006, the average person would get 1400 spams/year.
As someone who gets a bit more than that many spams in a month, I think that is a bit on the low side. I suspect that the spam problem will get *much* worse than that *much* sooner than that. There was an interesting note in the referenced article http://news.com.com/2009-1023-864815.html, namely, a recognition of the fact that the reason spam is a problem is that it doesn't cost the spammer anything, and that spam will continue to be a problem as long as that is true. Unless and until we come up with a way to shift the cost of spam back where it belongs, any technological approach to curbing spam will fail. BTW, when I went back to get the URLs, I noticed that there were some other spam articles on the slashdot top level today, including one about a successful lawsuit against a spammer. End Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> see http://law.spamcon.org for free suespammers.org email account _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
