Spam is an annoyance most of us have just had to deal with on some level if we use email. As an IT Manager for a local company, I have dealt with spam at the prevention level as well as the user level, both with their own frustrations. Although, I must admit some level of satisfaction when able to block certain spam. Of course, that satisfaction is often short-lived and much like trying to keep your house dry by sitting on the roof holding an umbrella.
Why We Haven’t Stopped Spam
Opinion: Even very smart people are misinformed on this subject. Here’s a clue: If it were easy to fix, it would have been fixed already.
Several years ago when Bill Gates declared that the spam problem would be solved within two years, he appeared to be thinking of SMTP authentication as the heart of that solution. I wouldn’t have said what he said, but I was pretty optimistic too. Not anymore. The overwhelming power of inertia seems too much for any solution to take on. People just won’t stand for the inconveniences that fixing spam would bring.
Posted under Security
This post was written by Veg on September 10, 2007
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