As I was driving back from the gym tonight, I could not help but to keep cycling about the enormous spam problem TnR and million of other email and web supporting service companies are dealing with. Reminds me of a daily war that sysadmins, just like troopers, fight every day in an attempt to protect users/email recipients.

What can make prevent spam from further proliferation?

How/Why is the crime somehow much lower in the off-line world than spam in the on-line world?

What can be learned from the off-line world to be introduced to the on-line world to help reduce and prevent further deterioration of email/web content.

Is it the laws? Is it the enforcement? Is it the ‘core values’ learned within family/school/other society environments?

By a well-timed coincidence, my co-worker sent this link from CNN about ‘9 out of 10 e-mail now spam’.
And one more the Inquirer ‘ 200 People Create 80% of Spam’.

Is it the web so empowering that the whole web world can not stop 200 people/organizations? Is it true that if those 200 (organizations) are “killed”, then others will appear and will proliferate as mushrooms?

Recent research indicated that sex/porno sites are only 1% of all sites on the web; the conclusion was made that the web is not worse than the off-line (more real?) world where some small percentage of people have spikes above ‘normal’ sexuality. (Sorry, can not find the link to the research at the moment of this post.). Why is it that spam does not support the same premise?

It is obvious that the can spam law has not been enforced and has not been useful.

One thing is true is that there is an expectation on the user side that email just should work and that the service provider (even for free one) will take care of it some how. How — the user has no clue (not an attack to users, myself is one of such users). Most users have little understanding how email works and what it takes to keep emails / mail servers (moderately) clean off spam. They hardly have a slightest idea of devices /hardware, software, tricks, and all else sysadmins and companies working in this market come up with to deal with spam. A few know of headaches and sleepless nights sysadmins have dealing with all this.

It is hard to believe that there is nothing the larger (better) world can do to effectively fight the spammers.

Are there any companies that are more successful than others in dealing with spam attacks at mail servers that they can share? But, then again, that is a reactive response to the problem, not elimination of the problem.

Your ideas about how to fight spam at its roots?

Ideas about your success in reacting to it on the server level are welcome as well.

As I was driving back from the gym tonight, I could not help but to keep cycling about the enormous spam problem TnR and million of other email and web supporting service companies are dealing with. Reminds me of a daily war that sysadmins, just like troopers, fight every day in an attempt to protect users/email recipients.

What can make prevent spam from further proliferation?

How/Why is the crime somehow much lower in the off-line world than spam in the on-line world?

What can be learned from the off-line world to be introduced to the on-line world to help reduce and prevent further deterioration of email/web content.

Is it the laws? Is it the enforcement? Is it the ‘core values’ learned within family/school/other society environments?

By a well-timed coincidence, my co-worker sent this link from CNN about ‘9 out of 10 e-mail now spam’.
And one more the Inquirer ‘ 200 People Create 80% of Spam’.

Is it the web so empowering that the whole web world can not stop 200 people/organizations? Is it true that if those 200 (organizations) are “killed”, then others will appear and will proliferate as mushrooms?

Recent research indicated that sex/porno sites are only 1% of all sites on the web; the conclusion was made that the web is not worse than the off-line (more real?) world where some small percentage of people have spikes above ‘normal’ sexuality. (Sorry, can not find the link to the research at the moment of this post.). Why is it that spam does not support the same premise?

It is obvious that the can spam law has not been enforced and has not been useful.

One thing is true is that there is an expectation on the user side that email just should work and that the service provider (even for free one) will take care of it some how. How — the user has no clue (not an attack to users, myself is one of such users). Most users have little understanding how email works and what it takes to keep emails / mail servers (moderately) clean off spam. They hardly have a slightest idea of devices /hardware, software, tricks, and all else sysadmins and companies working in this market come up with to deal with spam. A few know of headaches and sleepless nights sysadmins have dealing with all this.

It is hard to believe that there is nothing the larger (better) world can do to effectively fight the spammers.

Are there any companies that are more successful than others in dealing with spam attacks at mail servers that they can share? But, then again, that is a reactive response to the problem, not elimination of the problem.

Your ideas about how to fight spam at its roots?

Ideas about your success in reacting to it on the server level are welcome as well.