Web News: Spammers can be beaten in two years--regulators

Lokie · 06-July-04, 07:31 PM

Millions of users may abandon the Internet and phone messaging systems unless governments and software companies join forces to block the spread of spam, key figures in an antispam drive said on Tuesday.

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	The global battle against spammers who use the Internet to disseminate pornography, distribute unsolicited sales pitches and engage in the new menace of "phishing" can be won in two years, officials running a three-day U.N. meeting told a news conference. "If we don't work together," said Robert Shaw, Internet strategy expert with the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU), "we may see millions of people abandoning the Net entirely, out of frustration and disgust." The ITU says spam drains national economies around the world of about $25 billion a year and estimates that lost productivity--through time wasted in clearing e-mail boxes--could be four times that amount.

caxis0 · 06-July-04, 07:47 PM

Maybe I am just pessimistic, but I really don't see us winning the "global battle against spam" in the next two years, or even three for that matter. That's not to say that I am not greatful that they are trying. I mean, the article mentioned little more than "international legislation." I mean, that is the next logical step, but that alone isn't going to cut it.

just my $.02

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06-July-04, 07:47 PM		#2 (permalink)
caxis0 BigA's Special Project	Maybe I am just pessimistic, but I really don't see us winning the "global battle against spam" in the next two years, or even three for that matter. That's not to say that I am not greatful that they are trying. I mean, the article mentioned little more than "international legislation." I mean, that is the next logical step, but that alone isn't going to cut it. just my $.02