The end of e-mail as we know it, ZDNet, 22 Mar 2005

“The world's e-mail network is no longer the friendly place it once was. The booming trade in spam and the looming threat of e-mail fraud, in the form of spoofing and phishing, have seriously dented our confidence in e-mail. Despite a multimillion-dollar industry surrounding antispam software, and several attempts to banish the problem with regulation, spammers and fraudsters continue to stay one step ahead.�

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