Anti-spam services threaten to overwhelm Internet
Posted by Matthew on Monday March 3, 2003 @06:19PM
from the sky-is-falling dept.
Matthew writes: Security experts warn of an alarming increase in the number of anti-spam products available. These packages promise to reduce or eliminate spam, but all to often they are exploited to reduce or eliminate spam.
“At first, spam was a minor annoyance, and then grew into a major annoyance as the amount of spam increased. Now, Anti-spam packages are following the same trend: A few packages, nothing major, and suddenly a deluge. When is it going to stop?”
“We’re considering anti-anti-spam legislation to keep these anti-spam services from proliferating beyond control. Last week, I must have gotten twenty unsolicited e-mail announcements about anti-spam software.
Subject:Telephone company
Pac Bell does the same thing. They have a telemarketer call up and say “how would you like to never get a call from me again? Pay us $5 / month blah blah blah.”
Comment by Tyson — March 4, 2003 @ 11:06 am