Here at AndrewRaff.com World HQ, we’ve received thousands of spams in the last couple of days suggesting that um, we are less than adequate with regards to, er, a certain anatomical feature.
I fear that we are rapidly approaching the end of the current internet e-mail system, as spammers are attempt to make up for their small, well, you know, in noise. After all, if you have a friendly SMTP server, the marginal cost of sending additional e-mail is miniscule. Filters and defenses are good, but they make e-mail inherently unreliable.
If people are filtering their e-mail and summarily deleting whatever filters mark as spam, can anyone rely on e-mail to reach its destination? If people are not filtering, but relying on their judgment to find needles in the haystack of messages, can senders rely on e-mail getting noticed in the noise?
Is someone trying to tell me something?
Andrew Raff
@andrewraff