07-31-2004, 07:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-31-2004, 07:14 PM by CelticHound.)
Oddly enough, I finally know how much spam I'm not seeing...
I get my email through pobox.com. (I like the idea of keeping a permanent email address, though I've changed ISPs.) I finally got around to turning on their new, improved spam filters and as a side effect, I get one email a day listing all the messages that have been bounced or discarded. (I look just in case - for example, I has to "whitelist" Occhi emailing from overseas.) It was appalling to see just how many spams were being sent to me. I had no idea - apparently, pobox's old spam filters weren't that bad either.
Random dilbertish note: When I was on Earthlink, I kept receiving fraudulent mails claiming to be from the Earthlink service department. And Earthlink's spam filters never stopped them!
Sometimes, I imagine an infrastructure tax to send email. A penny for a text message, and a dollar for an HTML message. B)
Oh, for Pete: You mentioned that the ignorant may not be qualified to judge the quality of information they are looking for. Well, this study agrees with you. I got the link to it from one of Bob Cringely's columns. Even if I don't always agree with him, I enjoy his writing and occasionally browse through his archives.
-- CH
p.s. The study I linked to is titled "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments"
(edit: can't spell "spam"...)
I get my email through pobox.com. (I like the idea of keeping a permanent email address, though I've changed ISPs.) I finally got around to turning on their new, improved spam filters and as a side effect, I get one email a day listing all the messages that have been bounced or discarded. (I look just in case - for example, I has to "whitelist" Occhi emailing from overseas.) It was appalling to see just how many spams were being sent to me. I had no idea - apparently, pobox's old spam filters weren't that bad either.
Random dilbertish note: When I was on Earthlink, I kept receiving fraudulent mails claiming to be from the Earthlink service department. And Earthlink's spam filters never stopped them!
Sometimes, I imagine an infrastructure tax to send email. A penny for a text message, and a dollar for an HTML message. B)
Oh, for Pete: You mentioned that the ignorant may not be qualified to judge the quality of information they are looking for. Well, this study agrees with you. I got the link to it from one of Bob Cringely's columns. Even if I don't always agree with him, I enjoy his writing and occasionally browse through his archives.
-- CH
p.s. The study I linked to is titled "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments"
(edit: can't spell "spam"...)