Spam's Cost To Business Escalates
from the the-big-spam-article dept
The Washington Post is running their big spam article, which basically covers all the various spam-related stories that show up here from time to time. It talks about how spam is growing and will soon be half of all emails out there. It discusses the problems with anti-spam laws and anti-spam technologies, and even mentions both the "Ralsky Incident" and the "Spam Arrest is spamming people" story. It gives a brief glimpse behind-the-scenes of the spam fighting force at AOL, but doesn't give away much in the way of details (maybe because their spam fighting force hasn't been able to do much?). About the only "new" thing I saw in the article was a mention of how Julian Haight of SpamCop was targeted by spammers who faked SpamCop "you're a spammer" messages to plenty of legitimate ISPs - and included his home phone number for anyone who wanted to protest. Haight claims his phone became useless. The spam article I'm still waiting for is the one that explains who the spammers really are (not just a profile of a single spammer), how they seem to work together on new spamming tools, and who really responds to spam. For some reason, we never see any articles like that.
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