Originally published October 23 2003
Technology alone won't solve spam problem
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
It seems as if everyone is jumping on the anti-spam bandwagon. The widespread problem has prompted the largest ISPs and free web-based email providers to build features into their products and services to protect their users.
The only way spam can be combated effectively is to take the profit out of it. Interestingly, the simplest solution is also the most readily available: simply stop buying products from spammers and the spam will stop.
Analysis: Microsoft's anti-spam efforts are laudable, but it will take much more than filtering to solve this problem.
- Taking a new twist on an old antispam method, Microsoft plans
to use white lists for its free Hotmail e-mail service.
- Days after Yahoo unveiled new mechanisms for controlling spam, or
unsolicited junk mail, on its free Web e-mail service, Microsoft sent
Hotmail account holders an e-mail that pledged to upgrade its services
with the white lists next month and offered a sneak peak of how the
system will work.
- The white list, in its purest form, is considered one of the more
draconian antispam methods, because mail that doesn't match the list
does not get delivered.
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