Spam War

Spam Wars
Half of all e-mail will be junk-costing billions and clogging the Internet. Spam is ultimately called a "tragedy of the commons". It is more akin to the marketer who would mount loudspeakers on a vehicle and drive through your neighborhood at 3:00 A.M. blasting an advertisement. Or someone who would break into a TV or radio signal with his own broadcast or cable equipment in order to insert his advertisements. The counterattack has begun, software companies are rushing to build defense .
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Moore’s Law (Gordon Moore) of microchip processing power the number of daily spam messages is doubling roughly every 18 months. To avert such catastrophe, electronic warriors are fighting the scourge of spam using three-principle tactic.
1. The rapid adoption of spam-blocking-and-filtering software by consumer, corporate networks and Internet service provider.
2. Instituting more drastic changes in the way e-mail and the Internet work, perhaps imposing...