Every single day 30,000,000 emails are sent around the world. 50% of those emails are spam. Blue chip businesses and even Governments are getting drastic measures in spam control. The most recent evidence of this is the Canspam Act which was passed by the US Senate early in 2004.

If you look at what most everybody used the Internet for youll find the vast majority of online activity is sending and receiving e-mail. Email has become the lifeblood of modern society. An interesting social experiment would be to see what happens to a group of young professional many people who suddenly have all means of electronic communication taken away from them. Email has become as much a part of our lives as the electric lightbulb, air transport and mobile phones.

What happens if we do not implement spam control globally? What would happen if all the mail server spam filters and regulations controlling spam we are suddenly abolishesd? Chaos online! The online world would grind to a screeching halt as electronic mail servers become overloaded with the flood of spam. Global bandwidth would be consumed by as each spammer sends out hundreds of millions of junk emails per day.

Without spam control businesses would be crippled. Critical emails would be lost amongst a deluge of porn, viagra and breast enlargement type emails.

Without spam control home utilize of e-mail and the Internet in general would suffer from massive delays in sending and receiving of e-mail, a 100x increase in the amount of spam e-mail received. Internet connection speeds would be adversely affected with ISPs struggling to keep their servers online while their bandwidth is being choked by spam.

IT analysts estimate that by 2006 the average internet user can expect to receive at least 1,500 pieces of spam per month. This is a conversative estimate. Agressive action is needed to stem the flood of spam. ISPs supporting spam must have their assests seized. Spammers must be prosecuted and their equipment confiscated. If we do not actively work to control spam then we only have ourselves to blame.

The Internet is a shared resource used by us all. Spam control must increase and improve in efficiency and effectiveness for us to retain control of our virtual lives.