Marketers Gather Spam-Filter Complaints

from the almost-as-bad-as-spam-itself dept

It's been getting to the point where some people are wondering if the solution to spam is almost as bad as the problem itself. There have been any number of stories about overly aggressive spam filters - and how the people behind many such filters don't seem to care that they end up blocking legitimate emails as well. In fact, in some cases, the spam filtering people think this is a good thing since it drafts others into the anti-spam fight. In reality, of course, it just drafts people in hating the spam filters - even if they hate spam as well. So, now a group of marketers who are sick of the aggessive nature of anti-spam filtering groups have formed their own mailing list to help fight overly aggressive spam filters. The group is called "I Did Not Get My Email", and will be a place to complain about spam filters that are going too far. It sounds like some bigger name (legitimate) marketing companies are taking part. This group came out of the first meeting of the JamSpam coalition of tech companies looking to work together to stop spam using technology means.