[IP] 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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