Spammers may force you to change your e-mail address once a month
Source: CW360
Soon, you may no longer need to nag users to change their passwords every few weeks - they will have to change their e-mail addresses instead.
The Government's idea of giving every child an e-mail address for life will seem very old-fashioned when you need a new one every month. The problem is, of course, that once an address hits the commercial spammers' lists, you can more or less forget about using it for real mail.
My original Hotmail mailbox is a good example. The inbox receives about 200 messages a week, of which 197 are spam. A further 100 to 150 messages a week are delivered to the junk mail folder. Real mail constitutes less than 1% of the total.
Not all my e-mail addresses are that bad, and neither are yours. But they will be.
I know what I ought to do: figure out where the spam originated and complain to the ISPs whose users are abusing the Net. But I don't.
I just delete the whole lot, sigh, and get on with my life.
