Today brought a spam-oriented challenge. Have you ever been falsely accused? Today, I was. By an anti-spam enforcement list. It seems that my sending an e-mail to a small group of people with a link to a new URL of mine resulted in mail being blocked and my personal coaching site being put onto the spam list.It’s a weekend. No one is answering my e-mail. So I’m stuck. Some of my clients can’t reach me.Although the company claims 0.05% false positives, I have to wonder. Their primary criterion? That my domain is less than 90 days old. Come on!I’ve been involved with the Internet in one way or another since 1983 or so. I was around when the very first spam hit the ‘net. I remember it. I also remember when no one knew what “e-mail” or “dot com” meant. And yet here I am, with a double opt-in e-mail list being singled out as a spam site. It would be laughable if it didn’t so directly impact my business.What do we do? Spam is a debilitating disease of the Internet. Have you been hit by a similar issue? Or been overwhelmed by spam and its related miscreants? Of course, the technology exists to address this, but the very success of e-mail and the Internet makes it very difficult to deploy widely.Protecting your infrastructure from being overwhelmed is important. Even more important is to keep your staff focused on productive activities — and not digging through SPAM in their inbox or searching for real e-mail in their spam folders.This is a war with no easy answers. Yes, I’m pretty unhappy with the anti-SPAM zealots who knocked me around today. I’m even more fed up with the spammers who have taken something so wonderful and valuable as e-mail and turned it into yet another junkyard. My vote is with those who think that the smart guys of technology will win this battle. I just don’t think the spammers are that smart. How about you? Careers