SPAM THREATENS GROWTH OF INTERNET
Unsolicited messages represent half of all e-mail traffic, according to Brightmail Inc., a San Francisco-based software company. Internet users are getting more than fed up about it all, revealed a survey released at a global anti-spam meeting Brussels. Almost half respondents to the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue said they are shopping less on the Internet or not at all because they are concerned about receiving junk e-mail. "If you continue at this pace, in five years I do not think the Internet will be very popular," Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, told the Los Angeles Times.
Meanwhile, Yahoo is reported considering working with Goodmail, a Silicon Valley startup, which has a system for e-mail postage. High-volume mailers would be required to pay for a block of messages to be sent, receiving an encrypted code number to be included in the message. Internet service providers, working with Goodmail, and receiving some of the money, would deliver the messages.
"We are in talks with various ISPs. Obviously, Yahoo has made comments about us and is one of the companies we've engaged with," said Richard Gingras, CEO, Internet.com reported. "We've had good constructive discussions with most of the major ISPs." < CBS.MW >
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