In Japan users can change their email address at any time
(the bit before the @) and can use 100chars or so.
I do not leave my address around on the net, and get zero
keitai spam on a 7 letter/digit address. If it became a problem
I could change my address in a few moments (I THINK the limit
is you can't change address more than once every 10 minutes
on imode - this gleaned from dealing with some chap who was
pretending to be 93 different people complaining about one
poor girl who worked in a bar.. He only sent a max of about 8
a day - so possibly there is limit there, too.... Or possibly
the 10 minutes was the time it took him to change address
and write a message. )
The additional level of abstraction between address and handset
and ease with which uses can change their address makes spam
bearable.
Nick
On Nov 3, 2003, at 6:53 PM, keitai-l@appelsiini.net wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I am doing some research work on the occurence of general unsolicited
> messages in various media (aka SPAM). Up to late last year there was
> a lot of discussion on the topic of spam in mobile networks such as
> DoCoMo, AU/KDDI and J-Phone. As I do not live in Japan I would be
> curious to know if this is still a major problem and what the
> providers are doing against it.
>
> I would be especially curious to know what the type of spam is that
> you typically encounter (and how it has changed over time).
>
> I appreciate that a discussion like this is probably off-topic for
> this list and would be more than happy with direct e-mail responses.
>
> Thanks,
> Marc
>
> --
> Marc Sheldon
> Bond University
> Gold Coast, Australia
>
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