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Or, what can you REALLY do to stop spam?

I've been using email since about 1994. In those days getting spam in your inbox was a novelty; almost a "someone's thinking about me" type moment. These days not much spam gives you

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

that warm fuzzy feeling. Not long ago I was up to 300 spam emails a day.

Currently email users, ISPs, hosting companies and SysAdmins are losing a war to stop spam slowing down the internet, clogging up our inboxes and taking all the damn fu

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

out of emailing. There are many ways to minimise spam and here are a few:

Never use your true email address in a blog/newsgroup.
Never put your email address on a website.
Never give your email address out to anyone

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

unless you are 100% sure of their good intentions towards you.

Never send an email to a group of people using CC (use BCC) and NEVER let one of your skanky mates CC you either. (and if you work out how to do that, let me know.)

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

>Get a disposable email address from hotmail, yahoo, etc. for those moments when you HAVE to give it out, and change it whenever you start getting spam. Once your true email address has been harvested by spammers, it is nearly im

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ossible to take control of it again. You'll have noticed that some spam arrives with an innocent looking "If you don't wish to receive these messages anymore, please unsubscribe here" message. What to do?

If it's from a reputable retailer/b

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

siness where you have in the past give your email address, it's pretty safe to hit unsubscribe/remove and they will honour your request (it usually takes a week or so for them to clean you out of their marketing database). I'd include Amazon,

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

eBay, Microsoft, and the like in this list.

If it's from Bob's Online Drugs, don't go near it. The spammers will know from your remove request that your email addy is valid, and guess what? You'll get more!

There are several decent tools ar

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

und for filtering spam:

Gmail has a spam filter that has good reputation.
Thunderbird, sort of an open source version of Outloook Express, has a good spam filter.
Cactus has a great filter, and it's free. It takes a l

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

ttle training, but nothing an average PC-user can't handle. The ISPs and hosting companies join the battle!

These days many ISPs and hosting companies are offering spam filters to their subscribers. These vary i

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

quality from excellent (congrats to the boys at United Hosting U.K. for their hard work) to useless (but no names here).

Additionally, many ISPs are using blacklists (databases of suspected spammers) to filter out spam. These are well-inte

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ntioned but all that effective. It's easy to innocently get onto one of these lists, it isn't always obvious you are blacklisted, and it can be very difficult to get off, especially if the ISP is slow honouring requests from genuine hosing co

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

panies (Hotmail can take several weeks), and in the meantime you can find that a bunch of genuine mail goes missing.

Even the legislators take notice

Legislation is a nice idea but it ain't helping; how can we possibly get

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

ll countries to make sending spam illegal? Some countries have better things to do (like feed their people), than concern themselves about spam. Other countries don't care. (Russia was an example, although lately they seem to have improved.)

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

You've done your best to keep your true addy a secret (of course it defeats the purpose if no-one at all has it!), you've got some proactive strategies, some filters, and an unseen army fighting the spam war for you, but you know that what'

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

l be waiting for you next time we open your inbox, so let's try to think imaginatively about this. Why do spammers send spam?

It's cheap! Ridiculously cheap to send 5, 10 or even 50 millions emails. The cost is creating

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

he email/message, some nasty software to send out mass emails, a PC and an internet connection. Even so, cheap is expensive if it doesn't bring in a dollar, so why do they do it?

Here's why...

Because for every ten zillion spam emails t

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ey send out, some twit buys their crap! That's right, somewhere in internetland, some dopey dumdum is saying yes to a job at home that'll make them richer than Bill Gates, getting hot and sweaty about an offer for a 20 cent discount at th

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

"Bring 'em on in Casino", or assisting some dodgey African squirrel away a large fortune from their ex-countrymen.

The solution?

Now what would happen if we all stopped answering those emails? Well... eventually, the spa

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

mers would realise they were wasting their money. And then they'd STOP!

And then they'd go get proper jobs and leave us alone.

Maybe this is wishful thinking, but I feel this is a valid solution to fight spam that is rarely given coverage

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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