Every single day 30,000,000 emails are sent around
the world. 50% of those emails are spam.
Blue chip companies and even Governments are taking
drastic measures in spam control.
The most recent evidence of this is the Canspam Act
which was passed by the US Senate
early in 2004.
If you look at what most people used the Internet for
you'll find the vast majority of online
activity is sending and receiving email. Email has become
the lifeblood of modern society. An
interesting social experiment would be to see what happens
to a group of young professional
people who suddenly have all means of electronic communication
taken away from them.
Email has become as much a part of our lives as the
electriclightbulb, air transport and mobile
phones.
What happens if we don't implement spam control globally?
What would happen if all the mail
server spam filters and regulations controlling spam
were suddenly abolishesd? Chaos online!
The online world would grind to a screeching halt as
email servers become overloaded with the
flood of spam. Global bandwidth would be consumed by
as each spammer sends out hundreds
of millions of junk emails per day.
Without spam control businesses would be crippled.
Critical emails would be lost amongst a
deluge of porn, viagra and breast enlargement type emails.
Without spam control home use of email and the Internet
in general would suffer from massive
delays in sending and receiving of email, a 100x increase
in the amount of spam email
received. Internet connection speeds would be adversely
affected with ISPs struggling to keep
their servers online while their bandwidth is being
choked by spam.
IT analysts estimate that by 2006 the average internet
user can expect to receive at least
1,500 pieces of spam per month. This is a conversative
estimate. Agressive action is needed to
stem the flood of spam. ISPs supporting spam must have
their assests seized. Spammers must
be prosecuted and their equipment confiscated. If we
do not actively work to control spam then
we only have ourselves to blame.
The Internet is a shared resource used by us all. Spam
control must increase and improve in
efficiency and effectiveness for us to retain control
of our virtual lives.
Spam Control - The Internet Without It?