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A Friday in May...

Yes, as Lox noticed, some spammer had even bothered to "attack" my empty blog space. It has to be assumed this spammer was some form of 'bot. I read something the other day which stated that over 90% of all email is spam. This now seems to have clearly reached epidemic proportions and I can't quite understand why we all put up with it. Oh I know there are mechanisms in place to prevent its egress but that's not my point. Using the Mail app on my Mac seems a good way to capture incoming spam. Only my web hosting company's messages get repeatedly marked as junk when they are not. Most other times it works flawlessly. However it shouldn't be there in the first place. To say 90% of all email is spam is amazing.

I'm no technical expert on the prevention side of things, and I fully realise the cleverness of spammers in circumventing our basic security, but I can't believe such a large proportion of email traffic is unsolicited but can't be stopped. I think, personally, that this must actually point to a fundamental flaw in the concept of the Internet and packet-routing technology as a whole. I reiterate, I've no answer... just pure frustration, and maybe even a weeny bit of anger!!!



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