Some time ago, I decided not to regularly empty my spam folder any more. And today, I’m proud (?) to announce that it now contains 100,063 spam messages.
100,063 pieces of spam! All to me!
What is the world coming to. Two and a half years ago I wrote a piece called "Death of e-mail?", and unfortunately, my views haven’t had a reason to change on this since. We all hear lots of talk about grand plans how the spam problem will be solved, but I can’t see much actual progress.
My proposal from back was made prior to LID and Yadis, and so today I would write it in those terms. But the essence of it is still valid, I think. Anybody want to go and run with it?
Time to clean up that spam folder …