E-Mail: A Modest Proposal
E-mail is a wonderful invention. I’ve been using it since 1987 or thereabouts, when one of my uncles gave me a 300 baud acoustic modem that I could plug into my Sinclair QL, and I discovered the local FidoNet node.
However, this wonderful innovation started becoming a burden about a decade ago — that’s when I started noticing the spam and virus problem anyway. Between spammers and scammers, it became all but unusable for a long time. Now it’s back to usable proportions, thanks to technological innovations, but the messages that still get through are the most carefully crafted ones, and the most dangerous. It doesn’t have to be this way though. Continue reading ‘E-Mail: A Modest Proposal’ »