Spam Quotes

If it could be done tomorrow you`d just see spam just drop off the charts,

Given what I know of spam, (filtering won`t) be very effective in reliably differentiating types of spam, without requiring large amounts of manual intervention,

Even when spam doesn`t get to your inbox, it uses up bandwidth. The necessary increased filtering also risks blocking genuine e-mails.

I would go so far as to say that, not only is Microsoft wrong about the reduction of spam, but they are actually part of the problem. Microsoft could, for example, more aggressively attack spammers operating off Microsoft-owned Hotmail accounts.

It won`t reduce spam directly. AOL is already good at managing spam issues, and Yahoo is getting better. It may make it easier to filter mail, and may provide more resources for spam prevention, but it could also mean that people lose emails, and so change provider.

People engage in spam to make money. We have now proven that we can take one of the most profitable spammers in the world and separate him from his money. And I think that sends a powerful message to other people who might be tempted to engage in illegal spam.

I`ll never live long enough to arrive at some sort of peaceful co-existence of some kind. That`s probably the only way you could end it on a note of promise, which would mean the zombies would learn how to eat Spam or chicken livers, instead of your liver. But I`ll never get to that point.

Although mobile spam is a relatively small problem compared with spam on fixed networks, unsolicited text or picture messages can exploit and offend mobile users. The widespread adoption of this code of practice will minimize these messages and reinforce the mobile industry`s reputation for providing secure and trusted services.

Thanks to this coordinated instant messaging campaign, more than 700 million mobile subscribers will eventually have access to an IM service that is intuitive, reliable, secure and will work across networks. Crucially, users will only pay to send, not receive, messages - meaning they can easily control their spending and minimize spam.

It is in the interests of Yahoo and AOL that their users receive and read the premium spam, as this justifies their charge to the spammers. It would be more interesting if users could set their own fee for receiving unsolicited mail'¦ users could set their own white lists and then nominate a fee per e-mail from people not on the list. The senders would then have the option of sending to people who set a fee.

Premium spam is still spam.

(Okay, turning your prospects` cell phones into ringing spam machines is probably not your idea of cultivating goodwill. And it`s not likely to happen. Unlike e-mail, mobile phones aren`t readily accessible to marketers -- mobile phone privacy is zealously guarded by big carriers like Verizon and Nextel, as well as by law. There`s an opening, however, and smart advertisers are preparing to drive a truck through it. Provided a consumer clearly opts in -- say, by dialing or text-messaging a certain number -- carriers are slowly becoming more or less amenable to letting marketers return a text message, or even an audio or video file, to that consumer`s phone. Mobile phone ads are already big in some parts of Europe and Asia, and it`s just starting to take hold here. McDonald`s and Dunkin` Donuts are among the companies that have beamed coupons to U.S. cell phones, eliciting coupon-redemption rates as high as 17%.) Mobile-phone marketing today is where Internet advertising was in 1996 -- it`s about to take off, ... There are already more mobile phones in use worldwide than televisions and computers put together.

By creating a multi-layered defense that proactively repels spam and viruses at their source, organizations can now get ahead of troublemakers who are always looking for new ways of penetrating IT systems through e-mail.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

Every single day, the flood of pornographic and sleazy spam grows.

`Spam` is the number-one issue for ISP`s. It`s killing them, ... This is definitely going to change the Internet.