Digital abuse

When good things are available to everyone, bad guys start to abuse them. It's a well-known fact. Lot of things that were invented to make life easier are now doomed by misuse. How much do you enjoy ads on TV? Are you happy to receive all this crappy catalogs and free papers in your mailbox? How many spam messages are going through the mail filters every day? Good things by intention of inventor are becoming annoying in some decades or even sooner.

Is it possible at all not to have abusive persons? I think it's not. Unfortunately. For me right no it is more interesting who will win in a battle between Spammer vs Other World. I think that e-mail in form as it exists today will die in couple of years. Unless death penalty will be introduced and CIA will search for spammers all over the world. Which sounds weird.

Well, will we survive without e-mail? Yes, we will. Messaging systems evolve quickly and in combination with decent mechanism of digital signatures can replace e-mailing need for personal use. Blogging and aggregation through web-based forms is the answer for those who waits for feedback. The more manual tasks involved, the better we are shielded from spam.

But some restricting law should be developed to fight digital abuse before e-mail dies. Otherwise spammers will find another vicitim and destroy it even quicker...