Followed the Bangalara films spam debate with interest. I have to agree
that they did the wrong thing trying to market that way, it is clearly
illegal.
SPAM is a _serious_ problem, people talk about the amount they receive
and have to delete "not being a major problem" however I would venture
that every internet provider and email service in Australia now has SPAM
filtering on their servers, I'm with iiNet and their Spam filter seems
very effective. I get about 1-2 Spam messages a week at maximum, but
this is literally the tip of the iceberg. This link talks about what
iiNet do to reduce Spam volume:
http://www.iinet.net.au/iinetwork/network-diagrams.html
Scroll down to the bottom, they claim they currently reject 98% of what
comes in, if you google percentage of spam in email you'll see links
with most sources claiming 80-90+% of email traffic is Spam. Basically
everyone is paying for Spam in their internet fees and it clogs the
internet slowing response. It is basically "postage due" mail as the
end user ultimately pays for it. . So it is a serious problem and
people well intentioned or otherwise should be discouraged from adding
to the problem. Most internet savvy people would either delete at the
server or ignore because the message smells of scam, the language used
was the only thing that suggested it was possibly a genuine attempt.
Having said all that hope they regroup, develop other means of fund
raising and do produce a good doco.
Chris Ross
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