In the USA they Can Spam
In giving the EE3106:eCommerce course in May 2006, I came across an amazing set of statistics relating to spam - that is the abundance of unsolicited emails that clog our Inbox. It seems only a tiny fraction of the messages circulating on the internet are "meaningful communications" as in from one sentient being to another. The remaing messages are viruses and, mainly, spam.
America has passed its CAN-SPAM Act. But when I go to my university email account I have to brace myself for all the nonsense spewed out by the 24/7 bots working away endlessly and aimlessly. It is unbelievably tedious deleting the unwanted messages.
It seems like sin entering cyberspace. Simple communication has been corrupted, and replaced by a form of grey noise: of messages having a form of power, but denying the power thereof. Just why cannot we reply/forward the spam and send it back where it came from?? W3C designers please take note.
America has passed its CAN-SPAM Act. But when I go to my university email account I have to brace myself for all the nonsense spewed out by the 24/7 bots working away endlessly and aimlessly. It is unbelievably tedious deleting the unwanted messages.
It seems like sin entering cyberspace. Simple communication has been corrupted, and replaced by a form of grey noise: of messages having a form of power, but denying the power thereof. Just why cannot we reply/forward the spam and send it back where it came from?? W3C designers please take note.
posted by Dr Brian Morris at 11:43 pm
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