1. Thanks for the mention.

The actual permalink to the full post is at http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2005/07/the_war_on_spam.html

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Brad Feld

2. Interesting. And here's another interesting piece at theregister describing teenagers shunning emails for IM.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/28/email_for_old_farts/

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Shashank Sharma

3. The question for me it's always the same:

it's better to fight the evil or to help the good?

I choose to help the good. On my site I link for free hundreds of good site (no casi nos, no adu lts, no violence, no dru gs,...). Site for costruction and not for destruction... ethical sites....

I don't fight spam, I help good sites.

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by john

4. Will IM replace e-mail? Not for those of us who are serious about getting any work done. I tried IM but found it to be far more distracting than the telephone which I hate. When those kids grow up and get jobs they'll use less IM and more e-mail than they do today.

As for reducing SPAM... Myself and other bloggers have already been approached by ad agencies wanting us to allow them the use of our RSS feeds several times a day even when we're not posting so that they can SPAM aggregators and RSS feed readers making it look as if we're posting SPAM to our blogs. There are already many blogs out there that are no more than SPAM designed to permerate feed readers.

I'm afraid that until IF and when SPAM is permenantly outlawed world-wide (like that will ever happen) the spammers will see each new technology as a new way to SPAM us.

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Billy The Blogging Poet