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82% of email is spam82% of email is spamPosted May 10, 2004 15:17 UTC (Mon) by ikm (subscriber, #493)Parent article: 82% of email is spam I think the roots of the problem are very simple. Spam exists just because it is welcomed by most people. That's right -- they read it, and in case they are not interested about the offering they read about, they pronanly just think -- "what the hell, spam sucks!"... but if they are interested about the offering, they go for it! They go for it! That way spam proves as an effective marketing solution. And the only real way to stop it is to make it ineffective. This all is about humans, not about the computers. But computers can help achieve the goal. Say, any mail server that detects a spam messsage attaches a promotion text just above the text of the message, explaining the problem briefly and saying that the only way to stop spam is to stop accepting *any* offerings in that spam. That is, attaching anti-spam to any spam. The more spam one gets, the more probably he will read the banner at last and understand the problem. Well, in case most people are failing to read that banners and understand the problem, all the humanity will keep getting spam -- in that case, it actually deserves it. That sounds bitter, of course, but that's the economy -- while there is an interest, there is an offering.
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