Thursday, June 24, 2004
Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Research
Why Am I Getting All This Spam? Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Research Six Month Report:
Every day, millions of people receive dozens of unsolicited commercial e-mails (UCE), known popularly as "spam." Some users see spam as a minor annoyance, while others are so overwhelmed with spam that they are forced to switch e-mail addresses. This has led many Internet users to wonder: How did these people get my e-mail address?
In the summer of 2002, CDT embarked on a project to attempt to determine the source of spam. To do so, CDT set up hundreds of different e-mail addresses, used them for a single purpose, and then waited six months to see what kind of mail those addresses were receiving. It should come as no surprise to most e-mail users that many of the addresses CDT created for this study attracted spam, but it is very interesting to see the different ways that e-mail addresses attracted spam -- and the different volumes -- depending on where the e-mail addresses were used.
The results offer Internet users insights about what online behavior results in the most spam. The results also debunk some of the myths about spam.
Please go to Center for Democracy & Technology and read the entire report and results of the Experimental Anti-Spam Measures.
Every day, millions of people receive dozens of unsolicited commercial e-mails (UCE), known popularly as "spam." Some users see spam as a minor annoyance, while others are so overwhelmed with spam that they are forced to switch e-mail addresses. This has led many Internet users to wonder: How did these people get my e-mail address?
In the summer of 2002, CDT embarked on a project to attempt to determine the source of spam. To do so, CDT set up hundreds of different e-mail addresses, used them for a single purpose, and then waited six months to see what kind of mail those addresses were receiving. It should come as no surprise to most e-mail users that many of the addresses CDT created for this study attracted spam, but it is very interesting to see the different ways that e-mail addresses attracted spam -- and the different volumes -- depending on where the e-mail addresses were used.
The results offer Internet users insights about what online behavior results in the most spam. The results also debunk some of the myths about spam.
Please go to Center for Democracy & Technology and read the entire report and results of the Experimental Anti-Spam Measures.
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