Seriously, Pace, was it really necessary to reference me in this article?

There is a reason these Spam traps and lists are needed.
Attorneys hooking themselves up just to make money is surely despicable. But equally despicable are the insane amounts of uninvited Spam or UCE invading our servers every day. Directly from product owners or from bad seed “affiliates”.

As someone that traps/blocks email/blog/forum/link spammers every day, sees a steady stream of this junk, and run several types of block-lists, I can tell you that the amount of bandwidth and money WASTED on handling such invalid junk is enormous.

What supposedly gives people the right to invade servers they never paid for with Email/Forum/blog/link spam, and similar? To email addresses and sites that NEVER signed up to neither receive nor handle this junk? A very large number of them sent to email addresses that was NEVER real and as such could only have been scraped off the Internet (the spam traps). In our case, purely invented (randomly generated) addresses that could never have been valid on any email-list.

FYI. We have now added a new way of handling it.

Rather than just playing with the people sending the various types of junk, the Spam Beneficiaries (the final product-owners and/or sites that would benefit from junk) are published.

They Spam destinations and keywords used are published (without real links that could benefit in SEO), so people can see who NOT to buy from.

The added benefit is that when people search for them in the SEs, they in quite a few cases end up getting outranked by spam reports even on their own names, making it really visible to the public, which web-sites and businesses uses Spam or Spam links to promote themselves. Where to stay away from.

Much more effective over time to make the beneficiaries of Spam known to the world, rather than hunting the behind the scenes systems, senders, or “affiliates” that send it out. Fixing the root-cause; that UCE still has profit attached to it.

When this takes on, Affiliates/Promoters using UCE will quickly get very unpopular with the product-owners they promote using such methods.
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