Ask two Internet users a question and you'll get three opinions, all of them fiery, heartfelt, and contradictory... unless the subject is unsolicited commercial e-mail. The only difference of opinion on spam will be who gets first crack at the cretins who send it out. . .. Ask two Internet users a question and you'll get three opinions, all of them fiery, heartfelt, and contradictory... unless the subject is unsolicited commercial e-mail. The only difference of opinion on spam will be who gets first crack at the cretins who send it out . The situation is so bad that the engineers in the Internet Research Task Force have formed an Anti-Spam Research Group to explore solutions to the problem. When the heavy hitters of Internet architecture get together to solve a problem, you can be sure that it's serious. Many statistics, and my own personal experience, indicate that spam is nearly half of all e-mail traffic today -- and that number is only going up. Robert Banz, technical architect at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), tells me that last week spam made up 43% of the university's 885,000 e-mail messages. The link for this article located at SecurityFocus is no longer available. . The ongoing debate over unsolicited commercial emails highlights stark divisions among users regarding spam solutions and their impact on communication and privacy. Spam Solutions, Email Controversies, Internet Threats. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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