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Spam on the Rise

As you all know, spam levels have increased worldwide. I am now up to over 320+ spams a day. I'm inches away from getting more than 10,000 spams a month to my e-mail account. Just over 2% of my e-mail is legitimate, which means 49 out of 50 e-mails I get are spam. This is nuts.

Greg's idea on how to change e-mail is the best I've heard yet.

Posted to Dylan's blog on Dec 10, 2006 @ 9:59 AM
Filed Under: E-Mail

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Six months ago I would have said such a system was too cumbersome and needlessly complex.

However, last week I counted actual emails I received through a single account in four days. It was: over 600 spams, 3 legitimate emails. This means this account is virtually useless to me! Yet, it's one I need to maintain and can't change.

What I can't figure out is, if my Outlook can correctly filter about 95% of these spams into my Junk Mail folder, with no false positives, why can't the host ISP do the same?

rnewhouse - Dec 10, 2006 @ 11:16 AM -

I think what was written by Greg seems like an excellent solution. It would be relatively simple to implement, wouldn't require expensive hardware or a fundamental change in the way the rest of the internet routing scheme worked, and there'd be virtually no downtime associated with implementing it.

Wirehead - Dec 10, 2006 @ 11:32 AM -

Unfortunately, this is like upgrading to IPv6 (which actually has a functional spec and numerous working implementations). There is a lot of infrastructure in place to support SMTP and it would take a lot of cooperation from a lot of people to make a change like this.

We still have far too many customers running Exchange 5.5 (which was released in November '97, as far as I can tell). I don't see people like them going away any time soon.

dcormier - Dec 12, 2006 @ 5:35 PM -

Something witty this way comes.

Spam on the Rise

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