2004 was a big year for spam, after Congress voted to make it legal at the end of 2003. The result: spam increased sharply in 2004. But in my own, more personal battles with spam I’ve been more successful at holding back the tide.
In the three or four years I’ve been fighting unwanted e-mail messages with better tools than the Delete key I’ve tried almost a dozen different tools. This is a quick survey of the ones I’ve used, and why I don’t (or do) still use them.
With Q1-2004 coming to a close, I thought I’d take a look at my spam situation, which has been escalating out of control. Since 12:01am January 1, 2004 I have received 22,255 spam messages via e-mail. That’s more than 250 a day, every day, for the last 89 days. Earlier in the year, the daily average was lower, which means that in the last couple weeks it’s gone well above 250 per day. In spite of these numbers, I have two things that give me hope.
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Michael Alderete writes about food, drink, technology, and life in San Francisco with his wife and (inevitably) three cats.