Moaning about spam on the burning platform

The Globe and Mail reports: The inbox of the average Canadian surfing the Internet will be overwhelmed with about 7,000 unwanted e-mail messages this year, about 60 per cent more spam than received last year, a study reports. The rest of the article dissects the spam intake by source and value, then notes activity in the industry. First, the actions of email providers Yahoo!, Earthlink, Microsoft, and AOL to sue spammers and stop it with both technological and business means. Second, it notes that there is movement at the federal level to unveil anti-spam legislation.

This whole subject area is hot, hot, hot. Why? Full marks for looking at who suffers and benefits from activity here (hint: look past the consumer/user).

Posted by Grayson at March 17, 2004 08:07 AM