And in particular spam. There have been a lot of laws proposed and passed concerning spam. That’s a politicians answer to most things–but they don’t usually consider how to enforce their myriad of laws. I have been getting more garbage since spam has been “outlawed”. It’s annoying. Yahoo puts unrecognized mail in a bulk folder–I suspect most mail hosts do this or something similar, but they don’t really have an effective way to deal with it. I get over 100 pieces of junk in my bulk folder every day. I still have to look it over since sometimes legitimate mail sneaks in there. Yahoo also, with a premium account, allows you to block 500 addresses. Hell, I could fill that up in two days. And I don’t want to look through all that crap in my bulk mail folder. I just glance through to make sure nothing valid slipped through, but it’s still a waste of my time.
The solution seems obvious to me–send it all back to the senders. Gmail has the closest thing I have seen to this idea. You can set filters to send an email to a different address. I’ve taken some of the spam there and tried it, but even gmail has a problem–it still sticks a copy in my in box. I want it just sent back to the person, I don’t want to see it or deal with it. It shouldn’t be too hard to incorporate this into an email program. Laws aren’t going to stop it. But if these people get their mail boxes filled daily with their own crap, maybe they’ll quit. It’s worth a try since nothing else is working.
*This was originally posted on June 27, 2006, and was the last post on his blog.
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