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Anticipating multi-media spam
4/25/2002 7:26:45 PM
Posted By: Rick Brown


I don't know how many other people feel this way, but I don't want multi-media pushed at me in my e-mail. Especially once all spammers and hackers leverage the process. My boss got some multi-media Japanese porn in his inbox today. Besides, fancy e-mail tends to crash software and is hard to stop its loading for deletion, even if there's no malicious intent to it. Even if it's permission mail, this type of e-mail should also solicit permission within the received message before it launches into a multi-media takeover of the recipient's e-mail box. Of course, if reputable firms start doing that, there still will be no way to be sure you're not launching a virus, so it'll probably get deleted anyway. As multi-media e-mail becomes more common, I envision so much "noise" polluting people's mailboxes that they'll demand to settings that let only plain text pass through as a means of trimming the junk and preserving e-mail as one-on-one communication rather than intrusion-casting.
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