Tech: InfoWorld reports that phishing attacks up by 50 percent per month. No surprises there. I was discussing e-mail with my father, who is having problems with his Mailblocks account. He agrees with me that e-mail is broken. John Dvorak’s recent column on broken e-mail is an interesting perspective from a mailing-list owner’s point of view. His call for a central registry of permanent e-mail addresses seems premature, however. To close today’s posts, AOL just bought Mailblocks today, in a desperate attempt to improve AOL’s spam-ridden e-mail service.
Related posts on billso.com
- 22 August 2006: 95 percent of all email is UCE
- 22 April 2008: It’s 2008 and email is still broken
- 25 July 2004: How I protect my Windows boxen from email evil
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