The No Spam Zone
You Have Entered the No Spam Zone
Spam has become the bane of the
Internet. As the ratio of email's intelligence to noise rapidly approaches zero trust and confidence are being destroyed. Spam has dramatically changed the nature of interactive participation; people now shy away FROM entering their email address anywhere fearing an invasion of both their privacy and in-box. In a recent New York Time magazine section article titled Tangled Up in Spam James Gleick, author of the award-winning book Chaos, stated that spam messages account for the majority of all Internet email and cost bandwidth purveyors, such as your Internet Service Providers, billions of dollars every year.
What is Spam?
Spam, called “unsolicited bulk-email” in polite circles, is simply undesired email. It is the Internet equivalent of conventional junk mail. There is however a major difference: the distribution cost of Spam is almost zero; so don’t look for an end to the practice anytime soon. Although spam represents the actions of a small number of people, their actions are becoming an increasingly bigger problem for most Internet users. Many reliable sources estimate the amount of spam exceeded the amount of legitimate email sometime in 2002 and is now in excess of 60%. At the corporate level the dollar expenditures to fight spam in 2003 will approximately equal the amount spent for security protection.
Spam typically is sending many copies of the same message, frequently in the millions, attempting to force the message on people who would prefer not to receive the message. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. More obnoxious spams offer graphical entry to pornographic websites and magical compounds for anatomical enlargements
How Do Spammers Get My Email Address?
Searching the Web, stealing Internet mailing lists or scanning postings for email addresses are frequent methods employed by these unscrupulous operators when creating email spam lists. If your email address appears on a web page you are going to receive Spam it’s that simple. Sign a guest book, here is some Spam as a thank you.
The spammers use the same techniques employed by search engines for indexing the web. They simply scan hundreds of millions of web pages looking for the email addresses.
Would You Like to Try the System?
Paraphrasing an old saying, an example is worth a thousand words. If you would like a first hand example or the system in action, go to our [GUEST_BOOK] make an entry. You can subsequently delete your own entry if you like. An administrator must approve an entry before it appears in the guest book.
After your entry appears send yourself an email message and you well see just how far we are willing to go to protect your privacy. You now have the opportunity to be a part of our interactive community without your email address being harvested by spammer. You can also take comfort knowing only people you choose will ever see your email address.