Spam Is A Thousand Times More Horrible Than You Can Imagine
from the seems-a-bit-extreme dept
We all know spam is bad, but is it a thousand times more horrible than you think? That's the opinion of the guy who runs The World ISP, which was one of the first public ISPs around. Most of us are angry about spam, but this guy seems to take the offense personally. He believes that spam isn't really about spam. It's really a cleverly designed denial of service attack against the internet. He also takes the extreme (and somewhat questionable) view that if his spam filters say something is spam, then it must be spam. He refuses to even discuss the idea that there might be false positives. Since everyone knows that there are false positives in any spam filter, this is a bit disturbing and should clearly worry you if you use The World as an ISP. I can understand his anger, but when a customer calls him up to ask why emails that are clearly not spam are bouncing, his response is completely out of line. It seems that too many in the anti-spam world have become email dictators.
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WOW!
He seemed quite rational at the time.
Apparently the spam problem needs to be resolved before the managers of ISPs start turning into raging lunatics and blowing things up...
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ISP manager going postal?
As far as I'm concerned, any of the about 200 people who send out the majority of spam on the Net is a declared enemy of humanity and doesn't have to be dehumanized, the very nature of that method of making a living places this person outside either the human consensus or any rights of citizenship that kind of person thinks he has.
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Re: WOW!
I think he should be viewed as being on one extreme of the bell curve, although his denial of service point is spot on. That may or may not be intended, but that's the effect, and if we don't *somehow* stop it the "killer ap" (email) of the Internet will get irreparably damaged.
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