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BitBounce pandemic
Feb. 8th, 2018 08:07 amFor several months, hundreds of Indian, Pakistani, and Filipino users email me BitBounce auto-replies that look like this:
My reaction -- delete from postjobfree.com account with the email address that sent me BitBounce auto-reply.
Americans and users from other first-world countries - never sent me BitBounce autoreply. Apparently, users from first-world countries do not like the idea to put such a rude paygate on a way to their email inbox.
Still, overall bitbounce popularity keeps growing:
https://www.similarweb.com/website/bitbounce.com
Back in 2004 Bill Gates predicted that putting a paywall in front of email from strangers would solve spam problem:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3426367.stm
"That's easy for a machine sending a few e-mails, but gets very difficult and expensive for a computer sending lots of spam," Mr Gates said.
But ultimately, Mr Gates predicted, spam would be killed through the electronic equivalent of a stamp, also known as "payment at risk".
This would force the sender of an e-mail to pay up when an e-mail was rejected as spam, but would not deter senders of real e-mail because they could be confident that their mail would be accepted.
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However spam problem was solved differently: by measuring reputation of email sender IP addresses (based on "mark as spam" clicks).
My reaction -- delete from postjobfree.com account with the email address that sent me BitBounce auto-reply.
Americans and users from other first-world countries - never sent me BitBounce autoreply. Apparently, users from first-world countries do not like the idea to put such a rude paygate on a way to their email inbox.
Still, overall bitbounce popularity keeps growing:
https://www.similarweb.com/website/bitbounce.com
Back in 2004 Bill Gates predicted that putting a paywall in front of email from strangers would solve spam problem:
=========
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3426367.stm
"That's easy for a machine sending a few e-mails, but gets very difficult and expensive for a computer sending lots of spam," Mr Gates said.
But ultimately, Mr Gates predicted, spam would be killed through the electronic equivalent of a stamp, also known as "payment at risk".
This would force the sender of an e-mail to pay up when an e-mail was rejected as spam, but would not deter senders of real e-mail because they could be confident that their mail would be accepted.
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However spam problem was solved differently: by measuring reputation of email sender IP addresses (based on "mark as spam" clicks).
