Email Spam: HP to Make Lives Easier & Possibly Make Spamming Worse
Posted by Christopher Lyons on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 @ 10:18 AM
It sounds like a great idea at first - HP coming out with a line of printers that have their own email addresses so that you can instantly send documents/photos from your smartphone directly to your printer, and have them printed, ready, and waiting for you when you reach your final destination; your printer. Convenient, right? On second thought, maybe not so much.
As painfully simple as this will make getting documents off of your miniscule phone screen and into your hands, it may also be introducing us to a whole new breed of email spam! Imagine sitting at your desk, taking your first sip of coffee, biting into your delicious pastry, and then opening up and deleting all of your email spam as you typically do each morning. Now, imagine sitting at your desk, taking your first sip of coffee, biting into your delicious pastry, and then opening up and deleting all of your email spam as you typically do each morning, and then turning around to your "handy-dandy-convenient" new email equipped HP Printer and having a heaping pile of junk email spam printouts to sort out. Not so fun anymore, is it? And on top of that, think of all the innocent trees that died just so you could throw out your numerous Viagra savings offers. And don't forget all the cash that will be blown on ink and paper. What was once convenient is now disturbing, right? I can't speak for you, but it doesn't sound too pleasant to me.
According to numerous reports, HP is apparently planning
to open an app store for the printers, as well. Interesting. Let's see where this takes us, I guess. But in the meantime, if you're looking for an email spam solution, look no further than Postini, an email spam solution offered by Mosaic Technology.
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