Email Reliability in this Internet World
How reliable is email in today’s Internet world? Perfect, isn’t it? You would think that it would be completely reliable — we use it all the time. All we’re doing is pushing around electrons and we’ve known how to do that, in one way or another, for an awfully long time.
Whether we are writing to friends, sending a joke, sending a picture, or sending a business message, email has become a part of our lives. We’ve come to rely on it for easy communications. We don’t even understand our friends that don’t “do” email.
However, as we have increased the reliability of the transmission system. We have also increased the noise and the noise filters that we use to keep control. We also have this concept known as “information overload.” We usually hear about information overload with regard to a person being overloaded with the quantity of information they receive — from mail, from TV, from radio, from emails, from web site.
Unfortunately, we also have information overload with routers, email servers, and email forwarding systems. Sometimes, they get so many emails at one time that they get behind. Occasionally, they lose a few. This is one of the biggest dangers (as opposed to the waste of time and resources issue) with spam. Unfortunately, there is not much we, as individuals, can do about that.
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Some of the other problems we have with email servers also are caused by spam — more accurately, by the measures taken to try to control or to eliminate spam. Our emails occasionally get discarded by email servers that decide they are spam — even when they are not.
If you use an anti-spam program, or if your ISP does, hopefully you have followed my advice from the July 11, 2005 issue of my newsletter. You can read my thoughts about spam (I hate spam!) and how to keep it out of your Inbox.
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