This is about spam but it is not good news. We’ve seen only the tip of spam. Hard to believe, given the amount of it now that plagues us, but the future of spam is very bright – for the spammers.

Online chats, instant messages, cell phones with text messaging are all vulnerable.

And one major problem about allowing people to post comments on websites is that many more will be posting ads with links.

One problem is that spammers will do almost anything to break into our mental screens.

We are beginning to live in a world of “almost always on” communication and there are simply no reliable defense devices to protect us against the onslaught of messages.

Forget about legislation, at least for the foreseeable future. You might as well try to change the moon to a block of cheese.

This spam assault is reducing us to spam killers or victims of poorly-designed software to fight spam (no matter what Bill Gates has up his sleeve to protect the world from Spam. Gates couldn’t even supervise the development of basic software to keep out the onslaught of viruses in his very open Microsoft system.)

Sure, there will be efforts to find ways of deleting spam along new routes, but this growing menace won’t be easily defeated.

So what do we do? Try to reduce the amount of time we’re “on?” Maybe. That is, if we can fight off the addiction of being “on.”

This is a major “red flag” with no real solution in site. But we’ll keep tabs on developments and update you as required.

- RFD