Spam
Spam has become a fundamental problem of the Internet. Without the extremely efficient spam filters available these days (such as the excellent service provided by Gmail), email would have become completely unusable a long time ago. As sad as it is, though, everybody has simply gotten used to email spam.
What fascinates me, though, is the sheer audacity and imaginativeness of spammers. It’s not just email spam, after all. There’s Skype spam now (I get bogus contact requests all the time these days). There is — and trying to prevent this has just cost me the better part of an evening — comment and trackback spam on blogs. You may not even be aware of this if you don’t blog yourself but without filtering I would have had to disable comments on these pages ages ago.
Anyhow, this is just a rant. There is one real implication, though: if you want to leave a comment here, you will have to answer a stupid question in the future. This is designed to deter automated spam bots. Maybe it will work!?
July 29, 2007 at 19:52
Hi Magnus, Yes, Spam is awful. If I don’t delete it every day, I end up with hundreds clogging my email in a few days. I actually deleted my MYSpace page because it was so out of control there. Of course, I didn’t NEED a MySpace page. Another of my gripes – also related to internet security – is that I love to play a lot of online games; they are just fun! But the internet security packages I need to control viruses, etc, also tend to block the games! This makes me say a lot of bad words (*!!!$%XX).
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