Who cares (about spam)?

I've been wondering for a while -- loudly, I think -- about spam and the recent attention it's been getting from major industry players such as Microsoft, Yahoo!, and AOL. If only to provoke some answers, I've taken to asking, "who really cares?" Well, apart from the moms and dads protecting their kids' email boxes from (near) pornography solicitations and scam artists, here's the answer: the industry itself. This comment piece in the Globe and Mail makes it clear. The productivity imposition is the focus and the problem.

OK. With that in the clear, let's focus on the issue and solve it. I wonder though, if these industry players, and downstream providers of bandwidth, servers, security, and all the other derivative and derived products and services have given any thought to what happens to the need for more hardware, software, and pipe if "spam is solved"?

Posted by Grayson at March 15, 2004 07:52 AM