"MORE than two-thirds of all email traffic is spam."In my case I am finding that more and more of my emails are spam and this is in spite of the fact that I have a set of multiple filters that reduce the amount I actually have to see and deal with on a daily basis.
The problem that I have may well be shared by many others - this is that my service provider does not filter spam at the server side of the service. It means that I have to waste bandwidth downloading stuff that my filters then eliminate on receipt.
The article in New Scientist also goes on to say that by networking users could make a bigger dent in the Spam that invades all of our lives by combining information and networking to restrict access.
I am cautiously optimistic about a suggestion like this. On the one hand it offers a potential solution on the other it offers hackers who want to propagate something more noxious than spam an opportunity to link to a network and so propagate viruses.
I wonder what you think?
Have a look at the article in New Scientist and make up your own mind.
1 comment:
I really don't understand this whole spam problem, I just don't get any and never have.
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