On 29 Jun 2003, at 11:16, Jon Kyme wrote:
[ Quoting Alan DeKok}
The vast majority of people will simply give up on email once
spam becomes too much trouble to deal with. I'll include ISP's in
that, too.
I'm not certain of this.
There is considerable evidence that it's already begun.
I heard an interesting stoy on the subject on NPR's "On The Meda"
yesterday. It plays on many stations over the weekend -- you can
find links to live broadcasts at:
<http://publicradiofan.com/cgi-bin/program.pl?programid=69>
... or you can wait until they post the audio and transcript of the
segment "Net Dropouts" at <http://www.wnyc.org/onthemedia/>.
The Pew Trust report on which they are reporting can be found at
<http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=88>. A quick
reading indicates that spam is only one contributing factor to the
more general "problems with Internet Service Providers" cause for
what the study calls "Net Dropouts".
--
Tom Betz, System Administrator
Greyston Foundation
Phone 914-376-3903 ext 230
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