I Was Addicted to Spam

How did I end up spending more time training my e-mail filter than I ever did hitting Delete?

Peter Sayer,
IDG News Service
Tuesday, March 16, 2004

If you've had to deal much with software developers, chances are you've formed the impression that they come from another planet. (If, by chance, you are a software developer, you may well feel the same about end users.) I came to realize this when I got involved with the beta test of a new spam-blocking service introduced by my ISP.

Here at work, hidden behind multiple firewalls and filters, and with highly trained IT support staff on 24-hour call, I feel cocooned, my e-mail in-box isolated from the nastiness that is the Internet.

That's not the case with my personal mailbox, which seems to fill up with spam as soon as I click the Disconnect button. Last month brought me 3278 junk e-mail messages, and the months before that were almost as bad.


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