Reverse Spam
I'm being "Reverse Spammed!"
Someone is spamming and spoofing various "@demop.com" addresses as the sender.
Now no one is sending me hate mail telling me to stop spamming them, but I'm getting about 50 delivery failure, user unknown, returned email, and various other messages from email servers each day. A hassle - 50 more useless emails to wade through daily.
Not much I can do about it, just like regular spam.
Now if "we" charged a fraction of a penny for each email, the economics of spam would change dramatically and spam would certainly be greatly diminished. Of course there are other problems with this idea, like the creation of a bureaucracy to collect and enforce email postage.
Someone is spamming and spoofing various "@demop.com" addresses as the sender.
Now no one is sending me hate mail telling me to stop spamming them, but I'm getting about 50 delivery failure, user unknown, returned email, and various other messages from email servers each day. A hassle - 50 more useless emails to wade through daily.
Not much I can do about it, just like regular spam.
Now if "we" charged a fraction of a penny for each email, the economics of spam would change dramatically and spam would certainly be greatly diminished. Of course there are other problems with this idea, like the creation of a bureaucracy to collect and enforce email postage.
posted by Ted Demopoulos at 9:41 PM
Comments on "Reverse Spam"
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Robert Porter said ... (Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:23:00 AM) :
post a commentReverse spam, spam in general and all the other nasties out there in WWW land threaten to negate a great deal of the benefit of the underlying technologies. It has always been a balancing act, with the conspiracy theorists saying the good guys were also the bad guys.
Suggestions like e-postage have been around for awhile but they all founder when someone tries to identify the governing body etc.
I don't pretend to have an answer but we sure need one!
Bob