Getting Ready To Go To Singapore
In a few hours I will be on the way to Singapore. It has been a busy day getting packed and organized for the trip. As of 11:10 a.m. this morning, I had already received 83 spam emails. Fortunately, every single one of them was automatically placed in my "junk mail" folder and I did […]
Spam – The Role Of Governments
In prior postings I have asserted that when it comes to the spam problem, technology will work better than legislation. I have not said that governments have no role. The FTC Spam Forum was a very good thing. It has raised a lot of attention and focus on the issue. Orson Swindle, one of the […]
FTC Spam Forum – Press Coverage
Federal regulators have only one ultimately effective tool – regulation (or the threat of regulation). Regulation through legislation is their hammer and when your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail! Another way to say it is that when you are a regulator, many problems cry out for a regulatory solution. […]
FTC Spam Forum Press Coverage
There will surely be a number of stories in the media following the FTC Spam Forum. The first story I saw was by David Ho of the Associated Press. Here are two excerpts. “New laws that are unenforceable for myriad reasons or that are overtaken by the advances of technology have the potential to do […]
Spam Fighting Technologies
SPAMfighter is a small tool that you can easily install on your computer. Whenever new mail arrives, it will automatically be tested by the SPAMfighter server and if it’s spam, it will be moved to your spam folder. Cloudmark is a company that stops spam before it costs you money. Cloudmark’s groundbreaking, peer-to-peer (P2P) solution […]
