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3 short items on spam and SPAM
Warning: This posting doesn't have much genuine process industry content, but it does discuss matters that can affect cyber security and your enjoyment of Control Engineering.
Item 1: Microsoft says 90% of the 5 billion emails it handles daily through Hotmail are spam. A recent article discusses their efforts to curb unsolicited emails. Please note that Control Engineering newsletters, while send via email, must be solicited (at least once) and have the required "opt out" feature. Unsolicited emails do clog up system bandwidth and useful information can be thrown out with the junk.
Item 2: Pornographic spammers are sentenced to jail. Personally, discussing these guys could bring back capital punishment in Vermont, but jail will have to do for now. The two guys sent out millions of emails with links to pornographic websites, and made about $2 million dollars doing it since 2004. Obviously there's money in spam, but along with their five year prison sentences, they have to forfeit $1.3 million of what they earned.
Item 3: If you've read Control Engineering articles online, there is a link you can use to send comments to us. This feature works via email, and enterprising spammers have figured out how to put this to work. Every day we receive at least 10 or 15 emails that claim to be reader feedback, but are in fact spam. What this means is that real feedback can get caught in the nets since there's no way to tell what's what without opening every email and checking. If you have something to say about an article, I suggest you use the email addresses on the masthead and write directly to one of our editors. That usually works better anyway.
On a personal note, I have long been saddened by the fact that a delicious product like SPAM has had its name stolen. I like it, but getting my family to eat it has always been a hard sell. They just don't know what's good.
3 short items on spam and SPAM
October 17, 2007
Warning: This posting doesn't have much genuine process industry content, but it does discuss matters that can affect cyber security and your enjoyment of Control Engineering.Item 1: Microsoft says 90% of the 5 billion emails it handles daily through Hotmail are spam. A recent article discusses their efforts to curb unsolicited emails. Please note that Control Engineering newsletters, while send via email, must be solicited (at least once) and have the required "opt out" feature. Unsolicited emails do clog up system bandwidth and useful information can be thrown out with the junk.
Item 2: Pornographic spammers are sentenced to jail. Personally, discussing these guys could bring back capital punishment in Vermont, but jail will have to do for now. The two guys sent out millions of emails with links to pornographic websites, and made about $2 million dollars doing it since 2004. Obviously there's money in spam, but along with their five year prison sentences, they have to forfeit $1.3 million of what they earned.
Item 3: If you've read Control Engineering articles online, there is a link you can use to send comments to us. This feature works via email, and enterprising spammers have figured out how to put this to work. Every day we receive at least 10 or 15 emails that claim to be reader feedback, but are in fact spam. What this means is that real feedback can get caught in the nets since there's no way to tell what's what without opening every email and checking. If you have something to say about an article, I suggest you use the email addresses on the masthead and write directly to one of our editors. That usually works better anyway.
On a personal note, I have long been saddened by the fact that a delicious product like SPAM has had its name stolen. I like it, but getting my family to eat it has always been a hard sell. They just don't know what's good.
Posted by Peter Welander on October 17, 2007 | Comments (0)
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