I have not open three of my email addresses for four days and they were all full ... This article is really timely!
Spam Onslaught
New York Times published a spam article yesterday that gave me some hope that the junk e-mail issue just might get resolved eventually (or at least the spam onslaught slowed significantly). In "Spam Fighters Turn to Identifying Legitimate E-Mail(http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/technology/06SPAM.html?ex=1380772800&am
p;en=b990c8ba286e99d9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND) ," Saul Hansell explains that spam fighters are starting to turn the way they've looked at the problem on its head. The typical spam-filter approach is to look for mail that's spam and then block it. But new lines of research are heading in the other direction -- looking in a user's stream of incoming e-mail and focusing on picking out the legitimate e-mail, then discarding the rest. If researchers succeed in employing this approach effectively, it might mean that it's easier for legitimate, opt-in e-mail publishers to get their deliveries to subscribers. (Today's spam filters are notorious for causing "collateral damage" -- that is, blocking asked-for e-mail.)
· Spam [NYimes via eMedia Tips]
