 As spam era comes to an end surfers wind up feeling lonely
As the spam era comes to an end, with Multi-million lawsuits against the spammers and spam free email services such as tmicha.net filtering out the junk mail, surfers are feeling increasingly lonely, a survey published by Goggle reveals.
Tony Burton used to receive over a hundred and fifty spams a day. That was in January last year.
"I used to spend half my working day sorting through unwanted emails, reading headers, complaining to people's access suppliers and sometimes, tempted, reading the ads about penis enlargement"
That was before his company switched their email accounts to the spam-free tmicha service in September.
"Ever since the switch I only get one or two emails a day. Some mornings I get into work and pick up my mail and there are no messages... Then the day stretching before me feels empty and void... My office suddenly feels very lonely."
The idea of psychologically helping people like Tony is the idea behind the new junk mail service "heapsofcrap.com".
Gerry Spamalot who is setting up the service explained to BIGfib:
"The problem is that anti spam services can't deal with the exceptions; the people with dull jobs and no friends who only ever receive spam.
These people are happy to receive spam because it's the only mail they get, and anti spam services can't let the junk mail through for certain customers and stop, it for others."
"The idea behind heapsofcrap.com is that the spam blockers will let the junk we send through. We'll only spam people who sign up for the service and they will be able to switch it on and off at any time."
"On a Monday when someone say has a hangover from a party and doesn't want to work they can just switch it back on and spend the morning sorting through penis enlargement and Viagra ads."
See also : Internet ads ever-more intrusive says new report
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