JoeWein.de is the personal home of a software developer
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Joe Wein's Homepage (www.joewein.de)
Description
The majority of emails being sent over the Internet these days is spam, i.e. unsolicited bulk email. Generally, the longer an email address has been in use, the more spam it will receive. Also, any email address listed on a website or mentioned in Newgroups (usenet) postings will be spammed disproportionally. Spam costs billions of dollars in lost productivity. Hours spent deleting unwanted email or reporting spam senders or researching companies that send spam are lost from our work time and enjoyable lifetime.
The reason for the flood of spam is the amount of money to be made by criminal spammers. No matter how few people will buy the goods or services being advertised (or increasingly, fall for their scams), spamming is so cheap to the sender that it is profitable. There are too few obstacles. The SMTP-protocol, via which all e-mail travels, lacks the ability to verify the originator of a mail all the way from the recipient back to the sender. It was designed for a different age, when most servers were run by cooperating academics and not for profit.
Most spam you receive today is either sent from servers in foreign countries such as China, South Korea, Brazil or other Latin American countries (which are largely out of reach of US courts) or via broadband hosts in the USA. ADSL or cable internet hosts can be turned into spam robots by virus infections and other malware. There is increasing evidence that recent waves of computer viruses are created by spammers in order to open backdoors into high-bandwidth internet clients, which in turn can be used to spread large amounts of spam without any trace back to the originator.
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- Schulzestr. 3
- D-13187 Berlin GERMANY
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- Alexa: JoeWein.de
