Leave me alone! / With junk e-mail out of control, Internet experts want to redesign the whole system

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Internet experts want to redesign the whole system

[Note:  This item comes from reader Monty Solomon.  DLH]

At 8:20 -0700 5/18/03, Monty Solomon wrote:
> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
> Subject: Leave me alone! / With junk e-mail out of control, Internet
> experts want to redesign the whole system
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 08:20:17 -0700
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> Leave me alone!
>
> With junk e-mail out of control, Internet experts want to redesign
> the whole system
>
> By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff, 5/18/2003
>
> You think the dozen or two spam e-mails you delete every day are a lot?
>
> That's nothing to Paul Judge, chief technology officer of
> CipherTrust, an Alpharetta, Ga., company that sells e-mail filtering
> technology to dozens of major US firms. Armed with his software,
> Judge's customers discard billions of unwanted e-mail messages every
> day.
>
> Yet it's not enough. Spam is out of control. The flood of
> pornographic ads, financial scams, and other junk e-mail is rising at
> a rate of 15 percent a month. Around half of all Internet mail sent
> this year will be unwanted advertisements, according to Brightmail
> Inc., a California e-mail filtering company. Cleaning this rubbish
> out of corporate mailboxes will cost American businesses $10 billion
> this year in lost productivity and extra computer expense, according
> to Ferris Research, an e-mail technology research firm in California.
>
> People frequently ignore important e-mails in their inboxes because
> they're surrounded by so much spam. Filtering devices meant to keep
> spam away sometimes toss out good messages along with the bad.
> Reminiscent of the early days of fax machines, people sending
> important e-mails now follow up with a phone call to make sure the
> e-mail got through.
>
> ''Spam is putting the Internet in jeopardy,'' said Phillip
> Hallam-Baker, principal scientist for the computer security firm
> Verisign Inc.
>
> To avoid e-mail obsolescence, the Internet Engineering Task Force,
> the global group that sets Internet standards, tapped Judge and other
> e-mail experts to overhaul e-mail and come up with effective spam
> blocking techniques. The first meeting of this new working group,
> held in March, featured presentations from technical gurus, civil
> libertarians, and representatives of Internet advertising companies
> spooked by the rise of junk e-mail.
>
> Instead of fighting spam piecemeal, they want to redesign the globe's
> entire e-mail system. Until recently, such an overhaul would have
> seemed too radical to contemplate. Not anymore. ''We have the
> attention of the Internet community in a way we've never had
> before,'' Judge said.
>
> ...
>
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/138/business/Leave_me_alone_+.shtml

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