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E-book InformationI'm Guilty Until Established Innocent
by:
Jim Edwards
(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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No doubt simply about it.
"Spam" (unsolicited commercial email) threatens to
paralyze and ultimately destroy the email system as it
currently exists on the Internet.
Anyone with an email address can attest to the fact that
the avalanche of Spam has only accumulated in the last year
and shows no sign of stopping.
However, the current system many a Cyberspace Service
Providers (ISP's) use to deal with Spam may simply destroy
the Internet's email system long before the spammers do.
Now, I won't deny that the weight of the Spam on any
ISP's resources can rate really significant.
It's been calculable
that between 30-60% of all email now
sent is Spam!
This means that 30-60% an ISP's system resources
(bandwidth, hardware, system maintenance) go towards
delivering messages common man wants to receive.
Out of self-defense, many a ISP's turn to third party
services like SpamCop, SPEWS (Spam Hindrance Early
Warning System), and SpamHaus to help them identify
sources of spam and block the messages before their email
systems get clogged.
No Trial - No Defense - Guilty!
In theory, it's a great system.
In practice, it creates a situation resembling a witch
hunt wherever
the suspect
gets burned at the stake without a
trial, let alone the ability to face their accuser.
Here's how the system works.
Let's say a business routinely
sends legitimate email to
its customers or prospects who asked to obtain the
email.
As long as common man complains, life income as normal.
But then let's say one of those folk forgets they opted
in to the business's email list and reports an email
message as spam to one of the services I mentioned above.
Result: the business gets blacklisted by one or much of
these services and ISP's in turn mechanically
block
email (legitimate email) sent by the business to its
customers and opt-in subscribers.
To do matters even as worse, common man at these anti-spam
services bothers to let the business cognize they've been
blacklisted.
When the business finally discovers their status and
tries to contact SpamCop, SPEWS or SpamHaus, the real fun
begins.
If the business makes learn which service(s)
blacklisted them, they'll find they can't call anyone on
the phone to discuss the problem.
They as well learn these services are all unstructured
and there is no higher court of appeals.
Any email responses from these services often contain a
smug attitude of assumed guilt that scoffs at your claims
of innocence.
Also, don't bother asking for the possibility to face
your controversialist in order to prove your innocence because
they get to hide behind a cloak of anonymity.
Combining this attitude of assumed guilt with the
inability to prove your innocence creates a direction for
disaster for every legitimate business.
Oh, by the way, patch writing this article, I received 19
spam email messages through an ISP monitored by all 3
anti-spam services.
Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
In the end, the current system only creates possibility
for abuse that targets legitimate businesses patch the
real spammers simply blithely support causation
their flood of
email.
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