Would spam filters or antispam products help eliminate this problem?
It’s much easier to filter spam that comes from a distinctive location. For example, I get vast amounts of spam from Korea and practically no real mail. I tell people that dealing with spam is like curing cancer. So it is very easy for me to set up my spam filters to say, “Don’t accept mail from Korea, unless it is one of the two people I know there.” If the spam is coming from Comcast or Verizon or RoadRunner or any of the other large ISPs in the United States, it is much more difficult. I can’t just say, “Throw away all the mail from Comcast,” because I have hundreds of friends who use Comcast. So in that sense, it does make it much harder to filter. What are some of the weaknesses and some of the strengths of current antispam techniques? I tell people that dealing with spam is like curing cancer. For example, cancer isn’t one disease; it’s 100 diseases, and you will need to come up with a 100 cures for it. Another way spam is like cancer is that when you try to cure cancer, you need
