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## Spam the Spammer One of the unfortunate results of the popularity of electronic mail is junk email. Referred to by the term spam, it's a growing nuisance at the office, and in personal email accounts. Besides peddling pyramid schemes, auto loans, and credit cards, spam has the annoying result of filling your inbox with junk that's difficult to separate from important messages. Several well-known Internet Service Providers recently announced filters to preclude spam from reaching their subscribers, however these filters are imperfect, and often fail. In fact, a very important message sent to a large mailing list was recently filtered, as the filtering criteria assumed it was junk mail. A far better way to handle spam is to spam the spammer. No, I don't mean we should transmit our own junk mail to the spammer. Instead, we should respond with a courteous 'No thank you-remove my name from your mailing list'. When the customer of the firm doing the spamming receives 20,000 or 30,000 email responses to a junk mail distribution for credit card applications and finds 19,992 or 29,995 are negative, I doubt they will again employ the junk mailing firm. The very thought of having to spend

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Author

Gilbert Held

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1055-7148)

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Computer Science (Physical Sciences)