Posts Tagged ‘spam’

Why it’s necessary to reform the world e-mail system

Postato in Blog & Web News il 13 November 2008 da riccardo – Invia per primo un commento

Short answer:
Because of spam.

Long answer:
Do you know that e-mail comes from the early ’70s?

One upon a time… only militar people – and then univerities – had access to the Internet (aka ARPANET), and nobody thought that one day anyone will connect to each other with one, unique, world-wide network, without fines. So e-mail protocol was understandably invented without any protection to prevent sending unwanted informations. leggi tutto »