Tavis Barr wrote: >I've noticed a dramatic increase in the amount of junk email arriving to >my accounts, like from one a week to five a day, in the last month. I >don't know if it's just me or if it's happening to other people on the >net. I have a feeling it's the latter. I'm writing to find out and to >discuss taking action against it. It's happened to me too - a very sharp increase, from maybe one a day to 5 or 10 now, and just in the last couple of weeks. I read an article on the phenomenon somewhere in the last few days that made the point that the costs of doing junk email are so low, that you can pay for the mailing with something like an 0.1% response rate. So it doesn't matter if you piss off everyone else you send to. The free market solution is obvious: raise the price of email and end this free riding! >One idea that comes to mind is keeping an extra core dump around on one >of the computers I administer, with a header something like, "This is a >BTOA-coded response to your letter," so that I can attach it as needed. >Another is to simply flood people with fake or confusing responses. Problem is, most of the addresses are phonies, so you can't reply to them. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
