Spam Emails Increasing
Spam is one of the oldest and most annoying side-effects of the internet. Our mailbox can have flyers, but we have the option of posting a sign that asks politely to not receive them. There is no such option with spam. I just read an article on CNN concerning spam. It says that 9 out of 10 emails are spam.
This is ridiculous.
The thing I don't understand is that it has been around so long and there hasn't been a good system in place to stop this. I don't mean spam filters, this is just a big garbage collecting system. I mean an effective means to reduce the overall output of this stuff. There have been some individuals taken to court, but that obviously isn't working.
I have never purchased anything from a spam email, so I think I lack any understanding of it. How much money do these people make? It is obviously worth their time to cook up these schemes.
Whenever I think about the plague of spam these kinds of questions come up. Perhaps you could answer them because I would like to know.
- How much money are these guys possibly making off SPAM?
- How much SPAM is actually representing legitimate businesses or products and how many are scams?
- If no one replied to SPAM would it not become unprofitable and people stop doing it? Perhaps this is an education thing needed by the end-user.
- What is the actual cost to a 100 person company in dealing with it?
- How do they get these lists of email addresses and are there any repercussions for those that collect them or hand them out.
- I'm all for freedom of speech and privacy, but is there a sensable way of tracking down the sources of this stuff.
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