Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Roedy Green]

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:25:46 -0400, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote
or quoted :

>Right. Nobody sends email to addresses that come off business cards,
>or off a web site, or ....

Nowadays website email addresses are becoming rarer. Instead you fill
in a form to initiate your conversation.

In a business card exchange both parties might set up a permission for
the other,  so they are not exactly strangers.

There are some people who naturally get mail from the general public,
e.g. newspaper editors, salesmen, me. However, if you block a
sufficiently high percentage of spam, the spam industry will go away
and these people will be the natural beneficiaries.

You don't need 100% spam blocking to effectively solve the spam
problem.  You just have to make spam uneconomic.

There was an analogous problem with telephone spam.  It was even
easier for the telepest to get  addresses, just add one.  That was
solved by legal means. It could come back as long distance rates drop
and some country harbours them.
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