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will email die in 2007? revisited.

the new york times recently wrote about a subject i touched upon in "will email die in 2007" with "spam doubles, finding new ways to deliver itself" and the article contains the staggering statistic that unsolicited junk mail now accounts for more than 9 of every 10 email messages. there's no reason to believe that in 6 months to a year that number will look hopelessly outdated since as nick carr writes, "Given enough eyeballs, no scam is too shallow."

my pain is so great that i've been contemplating taking the road travelled by others who are smarter than i and just letting gmail tackle the tsunami of spam. gmail's new and much adored mail fetcher feature which lets you fetch mail from any of your other, non-gmail accounts makes it that much easier, but it doesn't look like there's an easy way to separate the multiple accounts. i'm sure you could probably accomplish this by tagging email sent to given address, but i wish it were easier to keep them wholly apart without creating additional gmail accounts. it's also irritating that when i send email in gmail many mail programs show the email as having been "sent by gmailaddress@gmail.com on behalf of spoofed@snowdeal.org." ( admittedly that an anti-spam feature, but still it's aggravating ). and i'm not sure i can live without imap access to gmail outside of the native web interface as gmail only supports pop access ( although perhaps it is possible to "hack" imap support ). sigh. what to do?

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