Email Sender ID: The hype and the reality (NewsForge)

Posted Aug 29, 2004 11:19 UTC (Sun) by markc (guest, #4419)
Parent article: Email Sender ID: The hype and the reality (NewsForge)

I've been using bogofilter with a simple IMAP setup for the last two years
and that has virtually eliminated spam from my inbox. That is, on the
server before it gets to my computer... if I didn't have this option I
would use a client based solution anyway... so solving the problem of
users getting spam has had a good technical solution for years now. I have
not had one single spam email in my inbox in all of 2004, so far. So
what's this problem I keep hearing about? There is no reason why
"everyone" could not take advantage of this solution, amongst many others,
and all help make it a complete waste of time for spammers to spam in the
first place.

Now, *if* govts actually made it illegal to spam so there could be a few
high profile spam cases, with the fraudstars thrown in goal, then the spam
"problem" could be over and done with in as little as 12 months. Spam has
got to be one of the biggest problems that does not have to be a problem
that I've ever come across. I don't understand... the solutions are so
obvious and easy... well the govt one may not be so easy but avoiding the
reception of spam on a purely technical level is.