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September 30, 2004
Oh Great, Now I Have to Deal with SPIT, Too!!
This morniing I had finished cleaning up the usual porno SPAM on my blog site when what do I read? SPIT is now on the way!! From Law & Entrepreneurship:
"SPIT means Spam over Internet Telephony. It is expected to be the next move of Spammers who have already made the jump from email to instant messaging. As hundreds of thousands of users switch from traditional telephone service to VoIP internet calling, Spammers may see a new opportunity to target a critical mass. SPIT is essentially the equivalent of telemarketing, except that a single 'caller' will be able to send out a thousand messages per minute to VoIP voice mailboxes."
But, just as free markets can create evil, they can also create good to come to our rescue.
"Everyone seems to agree that SPIT must be stopped before it starts, and Qovia Inc. is the first company to come forward with a solution. Qovia announced yesterday that it has filed a patent application on the technology entitled, 'System and Method for Broadcasting VoIP Messages.' The technology is claimed to be capable of identifying unsolicited and unwanted messages and differentiating these messages from those that recipients desire to receive."
Hope it works better than the filters on my blog software and the "Do Not Call" programs for traditional telephone lines! If not, even this die-hard, free market entrepreneur may long for the days of Ma Bell.
Posted September 30, 2004 06:41 AM
at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He consults with a variety of businesses on start-up and growth related issues, and with larger corporations on re-establishing entrepreneurial cultures within their organizations. Dr. Cornwall's current research interests include entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurial ethics. He has authored or co-authored four books.
