Wave of the Future (Spam)

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sat Jun 23 10:17:10 2001

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Mike Ford wrote:
> >> I don't see spam as a long term problem though.
> >Oh? I see it growing.
> I do a lot of posting, usenet etc. and I always use my real name and my
> email ID is my real name, and I never do anything to hide my email address.
> Maybe 10% of my email is unwanted junk, split about half and half between
> spam and web site junk where I failed to say no after visiting.
> Spam is so far from my problem list it isn't even funny.

Perhaps the reason you have so little spam is because your friend left you
off of his target list.

> My sincere guess is that the solution to spam will be more of a PITA than spam.
I think that that was literally what Sellam had in mind for spammers.
Received on Sat Jun 23 2001 - 10:17:10 BST