James Gleick on spam- February 10, 2003 I found James Gleick's article1 in yesterday's New York Times rather disappointing. Gleick goes on for pages reciting the obvious facts already known to my parents, my teenage daughter, and everyone else. Did we really need to chew up column inches in the Times magazine with more salacious e-mail subject headers What bothers me much more, though, is the lack of forward-looking perspective, and failure to spell out the full range of approaches to the problem. ...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/messaging/2003/02/10.html#a602 |