Could a 'do not spam' list really stop spammers?

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By Edward Hurley, SearchSecurity.com News Writer

23 Jul 2003, SearchSecurity.com

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The other week, Bill Blundon, co-founder and chief marketing officer
of Extraprise, a Boston-based customer relationship management (CRM) service
provider,found that his spam filter had intercepted an important e-mail from
Register.com.

Blundon was in the middle of moving his personal Web site to a new Web hosting
company, and he needed a confirmation e-mail from Register.com to move forward.
His spam filter blocked the message because it was machine generated.

"I waited a whole day for it, but it never came," he said.

The war on spam is becoming so severe that legitimate e-mail is getting caught
in the crossfire. Thanks to today's spam-filtering technology, legitimate bulk
e-mailers find it hard to get their messages through. Even if their e-mails do
pass, some recipients may brand them as spam because inboxes are inundated with
so much mail.