At 04:33 PM 5/15/2003 +0100, Roy S. Walker wrote:
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Folks,
I'm new to the list, and haven't trawled the archives, so possibly I
missed something about the definition of Spam....
I am interested in the fact that in a recent survey
(http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/secu/article.php/2201291), 28% of
respondents replied to spam and 8% actually ordered in response to
spam. It seems that some people like (some) spam.
How should this affect mechanisms for stopping spam? (if at all...)
Cheers
Roy
--
Roy S. Walker
In general we are seeking a technical solution but here are some
interesting quotes from the article:
" 50 percent of the more than 1,000 respondents to a March 2003 Mailshell
survey indicated that they believe they are at least partially responsible
for the volume of spam they receive. More than one-quarter (28 percent)
admittedly replied to spam, and another 8 percent have actually made
purchases via unsolicited promotional e-mail. "
" according to an April 2003 poll conducted by Osterman Research, nearly
half (46 percent) of the respondents inadvertently deleted or overlooked a
legitimate piece of e-mail. "
"The Mailshell survey found that 23 percent of their respondents had their
computers infected with a virus, worm, tracking device, or other invasive
code,"
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SolidMatrix Research, a division of SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc.
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"One who watches the wind will never sow, and one who keeps his eyes on
the clouds will never reap" (Ecclesiastes 11:4)
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