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March 08, 2004

Spam filters are tricky!

I have been trying for a week to send an email to my cousin's family, and kept getting error messages, "error 550". Turns out it is because I had "hello" in the subjet line, and the freeserve ISP automatically blocks any email with that subject. Presumably they do this due to the frequency of that subject line with spam.

So now a normal family email has to be configured to beat spam! Yet another nail in the email coffin .... at least email as we know it today. I shouldn't have to figure this out, nor would my cousins family have the faintest idea of what I went through to figure this out.

There has to be a way to develop trusted email, and even if it costs, I will pay for that just as I pay for regular post. The cost of a stamp is a guarantee of delivery, and Bill Gates suggestion might just be the right one.

March 8, 2004 at 10:35 PM in @ My Views @, Spam | Permalink | TrackBack (26) | Top of page | Blog Home