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Invariably, individuals will inadvertently open dangerous files or fall for cleverly deceptive spoofs. Even technically sophisticated users will make mistakes. "We simply aren't smart enough as a species to handle this."
Caller ID is a Microsoft-developed take on sender authentication technology that tries to validate the source address associated with an e-mail message.
The increasing volume of irrelevant data has forced companies to spend money to increase their information systems' bandwidth and storage capacity to cope with the increased load.
A message was posted to some Usenet newsgroups on March 5, 1994, by a firm of lawyers. Canter and Siegel advertised their services in connection with the Green Card lottery, a move that caused a great deal of outrage.
When continued unsolicited commercial postings by this firm continued and met with no resistance, a number of others began to indulge in the practice as well.
Right now, spammers can easily shield their identities to get through your ISP's front door and clutter your in-box. The recently enacted Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) law is supposed to address the spam problem. But ISPs and law enforcement are having a hard time figuring out whom to prosecute.
Stymied by a more concerted effort by ISPs to lock down their Internet mail servers, the spammers turned to the less vigorously protected home machines. They are abundant and simple to find. Spammers can cover their tracks and become virtually untraceable.
I'm starved for information – no news on the latest political scandal, no humorous quips from commenters at my blog, no spam mail to remind me of my existence, my status in the virtual world.
Spam mail, after all, is the child-beggar of the internet; if one is forsaken by even the smallest of beggars, one must be a beggar as well, or non-existent.
