{"id":58,"date":"2004-03-06T20:16:14","date_gmt":"2004-03-06T12:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=58"},"modified":"2007-11-12T09:37:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T01:37:53","slug":"nf-spam-001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/58","title":{"rendered":"NF . spam 001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an alternate e-mail account on one of the free servers one can find in the &#8216;net.  For the past three months it was rendered useless by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdt.org\/speech\/spam\/030319spamreport.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">SPAM<\/a>, which just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/6\/36062.html\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated it&#8217;s 10th year birthday<\/a> a couple of days ago.  It was only yesterday when out of nowhere the cyber-Gods started whispering in my ears pointing me to the SPAM filtering option that i am able to breath life into that sufferrin&#8217; account once more.  SPAM, or unsolicited commercial emails, are getting worse these past few months (if not years).  Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/55\/35920.html\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft is mapping out their plans to tackle this problem<\/a>.  Some theories would even tell that the proliferation of worms have something to do with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4113278\/\" target=\"_blank\">deeper SPAM-related creeping attacks<\/a>, that e-mail addresses gathered are being sold for a big amount of money, and SPAM is being used by aliens who have plans of colonizing our solar system.  A number of mentally-spammed entities can even make <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/3458457.stm\" target=\"_blank\">SPAM unstoppable<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Which is bad&#8230; we all know there are a lot of valid e-mails that are trashed because of this&#8230; not to mention the time, resources and bandwidth that are wasted.  Hopefully in the near future, the combination of technological software advancements, laws and &#8216;maturity of humanity&#8217; can help solved this problem.  Or better yet&#8230; use SPAM as a tool along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/73\/36061.html\" target=\"_blank\">fireflies in finding alien lifeforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an alternate e-mail account on one of the free servers one can find in the &#8216;net. For the past three months it was rendered useless by SPAM, which just celebrated it&#8217;s 10th year birthday a couple of days ago. It was only yesterday when out of nowhere the cyber-Gods started whispering in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomlinks","category-randomscribbles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}