WGNNews.org Posted : November 14, 2002
Why spam could destroy the Internet
By
David Berlind
November 14, 2002
Imagine an Internet with no e-mail. As ludicrous as it
sounds, it could happen. And it won't take some new virus or
worm to render the Internet useless. All it will take is
unsolicited commercial e-mail, otherwise known as spam.
You think I'm kidding? Consider this: Spam begets
blacklists, and ISPs use blacklists to isolate sources of
spam. Already, these blacklists are preventing thousands,
perhaps millions of innocent e-mails from arriving at their
destinations. At the rate we're going, it won't be long
before all e-mail ---- spam or not --- ends up in the dead
letter bin.
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Posted:November 14, 2002
By Kenneth Martin
I have myself experianced this problem with ISP's
battle against spammers killing my email. If your website
hosting service for your Domain forwards your email to an
email address provided by an ISP, Watch Out, if you find
your suddenly missing your email after a bit. Don't look in
your hosting services direction, it's your ISP that doesn't
relay. Well at least that's what happened to me one or two
years ago. It's bad enough to loose information from data
loss in crashes and reinstalls, but to loose it to spammers
pushing email we don't want, is the worst. Fair warning to
those of you that sign up to be added to an email list
saying they will remove you. I made the sad mistake one time
of doing something for my wife on my older email address
when they promised to remove it if we wanted to. Well that
came very quickly when our mailbox became bombbarded with
email. Well I guess they removed us from their list but the
other 15,000 people that they must have sold it to did not
get the message I guess. We should have a law on such sign
up list that If we want to be removed that is inclusive of
all they pass your email address to, and they are
responsible to see it does get removed. Otherwise your email
address has been destroyed by spammers and almost impossible
to block all that junk email.
