Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Internet tips this week: stop and stop

While we all admit that unsolicited commercial email is a real pain, I sometimes wonder if anti-spam enthusiasts are going too far. Last week I was in Costa Rica, the only practical way to go home by email. I was maintaining an AOL account for this purpose while traveling and was surprised to find that when I got home, I only received about half of the emails sent - some of them are important.

Many ISPs [Internet Service Providers], including AOL, have content filters installed that automatically classify anything "what they think" spam as spam, and messages are never delivered to the target. The recipient, the person who sent the message will not notify it that it has not been delivered.

The problem is that there is no personal judgment at the ISP level to determine if a note is spam. They installed content filters to "dump" any email that matches the keywords they installed. How dare they decide what I should or should not receive. Because the words in the note [or the length of the note] match their rejection parameters, they won't send it? This is wrong!

They are really shameful! I don't know about you, but I don't want my ISP to play the role of "big brother" on my behalf and determine what I should read and what I should not read.

I do agree that spam is not only a hassle, but it is a daily problem that requires my time to sort out and get rid of the "junk" I didn't ask for, and I don't want to get it. But let me make this determination. I can set a filter to automatically delete emails I don't want myself. I don't need it, nor do I want others to make this decision on my behalf.

Someone reported to me that some Internet service providers are blocking news communications that people are asking for. Some surveys found certain words on their "prohibited" list and they appeared in the newsletter. Some of our publications include Dr. Earl Mindell's medical column. Is there a word in the column that matches the filter installed by the Self-Assigned Email Guardian - of course. Will the communication exceed the magical length they determined to be spam - again right. This is spam - no!
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  How to build email in HTML format? Some ISPs will automatically delete anything that has no text in the body of the email - error.

Sending spam is a big deal. Federal law enacted by the United States is ineffective because the main "spam home" is only following these guidelines. Someone suggested blocking the domain name of spam. Become real! The domain name is a dozen. If one is blocked they just use the other.

But if someone complains about you, they may block your ISP. I know that an ISP blocks an instance of Comcast.net, and no one can use that ISP to receive emails sent by Comcast users.

The early stages of the Internet are over, and this is the only property of the abusive academic community of spam. The internet is great for supporting e-commerce, it works very well.
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  Online advertising is now a way of life.

Now - don't feel that I support spam, but for goodness, I don't want others to monitor my email and determine what I should read.

How many legitimate emails we have "no" because others are making decisions for us. Since the reply violates some ISP filters, how many requests for information are "blowed away". My feeling is that they should stop and stop, not the self-styled guardian of my inbox.




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