Re: the spike, but not as we know it, Jim

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue Dec 25 2001 - 01:01:26 MST


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> Today's NYT informs us:
>
> TECHNOLOGY
> =========================
> 'You've Got Mail,' More and More, and Mostly, It Is Junk
>
> Unsolicited commercial e-mail, best known by its
> pejorative appellation, spam, has been annoying Internet
> users for years. But in the last three months, spam has
> spiked.
>
> .........................
>
> Damn! The Spamgularity! Should have realized it would arrive first...

hehehe. Yep and I can see that a lot of underemployed AI people
will be needed to write filters clever enough to stem the
hideous flow of SPAM, SPAM and SPAM. My own amateur filters are
cranked up so high they have been found to be tossing aside
important non-spam like job offers.

- samantha



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