The document argues that overreaction to spam, including intrusive spam filters, is counterproductive and harms legitimate communication. While spam is a problem, it can easily be addressed by deleting unwanted emails. However, aggressive anti-spam techniques block too many genuine emails and limit people's ability to communicate online. Spam filters have negatively impacted websites by preventing contact with site owners and international email exchange. The document urges people not to let fears about spam compromise the benefits of email communication.

1. Lets fight the self-appointed Spam Lords

2. Lets get one thing clear - SPAM is very bad. Spam is
demeaning, intrusive, frustrating, etc. However, the
reaction to Spam is defeatist, Luditist, intrusive and
reactionary.

3. Firstly, lets look at the reality of Spam; you download
your emails, you delete the Spam.

4. Come on, are they that hard to identify? Is the email
from Aunt Dot injured by the Spam? Do you have to
spend hours reading each one to the bitter end to guess
it is spam?

5. Email programmes come with a button called - DELETE;
so delete - end of the matter. I hear you whinning: "but
they take so long to download"; "they fill my inbox";
"they contain pornography", etc. One answer: Delete.

6. Actually, the porn Spam does present a bigger problem-
for children of course, and the degree of insult they
produce. To be honest, if your email is privacy protected,
which it should be, then these problems can be partially
avoided as well.

7. By the way, Spamhaus, a major Spam identifier, notes
that 80% of Spam originates with just 20 groups.

8. So how does everyone suffer from over-reaction when
dealing with Spam? How many genuine emails get
blocked by Spam walls? I will use some examples of
personal experience to show you the problems.

9. I have had important emails blocked just because I used
an ISP that one of the 20 gangs had used for a period.
This ISP was actually the major telephone service for a
country, one that about 50% of the country's residents
used. Great response: close half a country's
international emails.

10. I have had emails blocked because I used the word,
'free'. My project, is a free resource on the Internet.
Now I cannot say free, and hundreds of schools write to
me to ask if my Project is free. I have also had emails
blocked because I said, "For adults working with
children"; NO adults, obviously pornography.

11. A professor at a University asked me about my Project;
he was considering doing research with me, but I could
not reply to him: intrusive Spam wall.

12. How many international websites today do not include
any email contact details, or go to great lengths to hide
them? What is the point of a website if you cannot
respond and communicate with the owner? Am I
expected to make international phone calls, send letters,
snail mail?

13. I can go on. The bottom line is that our fears of using a
delete button have allowed us to start to lose one of the
great technology innovations of this era: email.

14. Email is better than great: it is better than landing on
the moon. How did we live without email? This amazing
technology is being murdered by ourselves and our
ridiculous, stupid over-reaction.

15. Weigh the good of email and the cost of Spam; the
balance is wrong. Wake up! To join the fight AGAINST
the spam lords

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