At 10:09 AM -0800 3/5/03, Fred Baker wrote:
as e-mail in-boxes get jammed with junk e-mail, IM has become the most
reliable way to ensure that an electronic message receives priority
attention.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30944-2003Mar2.html
Can Junk I-M be far behind, then?
One of the things that AOL got right with AIM was the ability to dis
the sender. That, combined with a centralized server system, makes
it difficult to spam. All it takes is annoying three or four people
and suddenly your messages aren't getting through for some period of
time. If you could trivially sign up for accounts, then you could
get around this. But that requires email verification.
Not to say that spammers couldn't work around those problems, but it
has made it harder. AIM has two of the ingredients that make spam
control much easier. A centralized server and a verifiable identity.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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