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Author :: Niall Roche  |
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| Article Title :: Spam Control - The Internet Without It? |
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Every single day 30,000,000 emails are sent around the world.
50% of those emails are spam. Blue chip companies and even
Governments are taking drastic measures in spam control. The
most recent evidence of this is the Canspam Act which was passed
by the US Senate early in 2004.
If you look at what most people used the Internet for you'll
find the vast majority of online activity is sending and
receiving email. Email has become the lifeblood of modern
society. An interesting social experiment would be to see what
happens to a group of young professional people who suddenly
have all means of electronic communication taken away from them.
Email has become as much a part of our lives as the electric
lightbulb, air transport and mobile phones.
What happens if we don't implement spam control globally? What
would happen if all the mail server spam filters and regulations
controlling spam were suddenly abolishesd? Chaos online! The
online world would grind to a screeching halt as email servers
become overloaded with the flood of spam. Global bandwidth would
be consumed by as each spammer sends out hundreds of millions of
junk emails per day.
Without spam control businesses would be crippled. Critical
emails would be lost amongst a deluge of porn, viagra and breast
enlargement type emails.
Without spam control home use of email and the Internet in
general would suffer from massive delays in sending and
receiving of email, a 100x increase in the amount of spam email
received. Internet connection speeds would be adversely affected
with ISPs struggling to keep their servers online while their
bandwidth is being choked by spam.
IT analysts estimate that by 2006 the average internet user can
expect to receive at least 1,500 pieces of spam per month. This
is a conversative estimate. Agressive action is needed to stem
the flood of spam. ISPs supporting spam must have their assests
seized. Spammers must be prosecuted and their equipment
confiscated. If we do not actively work to control spam then we
only have ourselves to blame.
The Internet is a shared resource used by us all. Spam control
must increase and improve in efficiency and effectiveness for us
to retain control of our virtual lives.
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