Would you Like a side of Spam with that Email?
Everyone has gone to open their email in hopes of a titled email saying “class is cancelled!” Well the other day I got a good laugh, I open my yahoo email account that I use when signing up for random things on the internet. First off it is flooded by spam, from gambling to porn spams that are labled “I have something urgent to tell you- Mom”. I agree these emails are annoying and truely unwanted, but at the same time maybe if they want to crack down on these they should focus on the people giving out everyones email addresses instead of the emailer.
They are the ones feeding this spam infested world on the internet and need to be fined or penalized some how. Now onto the companies sending out the emails, these people should be prosecuted to the full extent. When you mislead someone into opening a email that could possibly contain offending material and allowing children to have easy access something needs to be done. I know that Dr H stated that they make very little money off of this tactic and approach to marketing a website, but we need to protect the children from these kinds of emails. I know parental controls will save children from opening obvious emails but do they always work on these misleading titles ? It makes its way through my spam filters once and awhile by using creative titles and I have my spam filters set to the highest setting .
Truely I beleive that it would be impossible to regulate these spam senders even with the technology we have today. The only thing we can do is to possibly create better filter system that will stop all of these spammers and give them zero profits from there annoying practices thus giving them no reason at all to send these emails out anymore.
monozygote said,
March 12, 2006 at 2:45 p03
Right on. I think it’s the companies that market their sites in this way that should be prosecuted. Other agencies who help them are only supplying a market. In terms of enforcement, all one would have to do is collect spam, follow the link and prosecute the company behind the site. How hard is that?