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...Could spam be dying? I ask this because much of the junk e-mail I get these days is about spam itself: how to make money from bulk e-mailing, how to "harvest fresh addresses," how to MAKE MONEY FAST on the Internet by spewing your commercial message to millions of people all over the world. If spam works so well, why are promoters so desperate to sell me on its benefits...
...sitting in my office one morning, going through my e-mail, and I find a bit of spam from an online porn site called DoMeLive.com Live sex, it promises--you on one end, a heavy-breathing nude human being on the other. "Free samples," it says, supplying a password and log-in. No harm in looking, I figure, and I click...
...mail is great, but what about spam? All this unsolicited junk is clogging up bandwidth and becoming not only a nuisance, but a security threat to institutions and individuals. It is estimated that 33 percent of all e-mail processed by the world's largest on-line service, America Online, is junk mail...
BLOCK THAT SPAM...
...World War II G.I. ever hated Spam canned meat as much as Netizens detest its contemporary namesake. Unsolicited junk E-mail now accounts for 10% of all Internet traffic and up to 30% of the 26 million daily messages on America Online. Because spammers are such a fast-moving target--using constantly changing bogus return addresses--their stuff is almost impossible to stamp out. But help is on the way. Sendmail Inc., makers of the most popular E-mail-routing software, says its new version has a built-in antispam tool kit that includes a virtually spamproof address verifier...