eMail RIP, Redux
August 11, 2006
Everyone knows email is hopelessly broken. For example, note this excellent article, written three years ago, and the situation has only worsened. Indeed, if you google “email broken” the first several hits are from 2003. It is as if everyone has simply accepted it.
But should we? Every now and then I look at my own spam problem. In the last 10 hours, for example, I received 195 emails, and 134 of them were spam. 113 of the spam were successfully trapped in my Outlook spam folder, leaving me to clean up 21 of them from my Inbox. This is in addition to a spam filter that one of my ISPs provides; that filter traps about 200 spam a day. At one point, I was diligent about reviewing the spam to see if any real email was incorrectly trapped, but now I rarely do. Last night I cleaned about 7400 spam from my Outlook spam folder after a perfunctory search for a few keywords (“XML,” “content,” “Melrose” (my hometown)) and saving a half-dozen or so noncritical emails.
Shouldn’t there be more of a solution to this problem?
Posted by Bill Trippe at August 11, 2006 11:28 AM
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