 Wills
join:2001-01-03
Port Charlotte, FL | Learn to use your computer and you wouldn't have spam.
Why do we attack the spammers for making a living taking advantadge of stupid people? Stupid people are taken advantadge of in other ways that are perfectly legal..casinos, fairs, Amway just to name a few. There is no difference.
If you are too stupid to NOT give your email out, properly code it on your webpage, and use an email address that is prone to dictionary attack, join websites that share your information you deserve ALL the spam you get in your inbox.
These people have chosen a way of making money. That is their freedom. They change the email headers because internet-vigilanties block their domains.
If you are too stupid to realize that the dealership that sold you your car really has no purpose for your email address, then you should be swamped in spam. The fact of the matter is that people actually buy the stuff that is spammed to them. It's supply and demand.
Now, it does need regulated. If you want to spam, then spam away. But stop spamming blindly. I don't have tits, why would I want to make them bigger.
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| Blame the victim. How nice.
It isn't always the victim's fault. First of all, how are we supposed to "know" what sites are going to sell our addresses? Not all of us have psychic powers like you apparently do.
Second of all, it is possible to get spam without ever giving it out. You might have picked an address that was previously used by someone else, or a spammer might have figured it out using a dictionary attack. |
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Wills
join:2001-01-03
Port Charlotte, FL | They aren't victims. Give me a break. They aren't being raped or murdered, they aren't paying anything extra because of spam. Let's get a little realistic here. And if you feel victimized by a little spam, then you have serious issues you and a psychiatrist should hammer out.
If you don't know what sites are going to sell your address then you fall into the category of people I just complained about.
If you picked an address that someone else had, then change it. If you were dumb enough to have something that could be picked out of a dictionary attack, learn how to use your equipment.
Just goes to show...you need a license to hunt, a license to fish, and a license to drive, but any moron can run a computer.
No matter where you go or by what medium you go there, you are going to get advertisements. You get junk mail. You get radio commercials, you get TV commercials, you get commercials before you watch a movie in the theatre, you get bombarded with billboards and flyers. Most magazines are 40% content and 60% ad space now. Why should you kill just spam?
Would you like to know why you get all of this stuff? Because they work. Nobody here can honestly say that they haven't bought a SINGLE THING without some kind of advertisement for it. I will openly call you a liar. You aren't going to stop spam. Period.
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | said by Wills:
Most magazines are 40% content and 60% ad space now. Why should you kill just spam?
As long as the advertisers aren't forcing us to pay for unwanted ads, I could care less what they put in magazines or in my junk mail. Junk mail makes great kindling material in the winter. But as for killing spam, you sound like someone who's never had a dialup connection and had the pleasure of sifting through a million junk emails and waiting for hours for all of that just to load before you can actually sit down and use your internet connection for something productive.
As broadband gets more pervasive, the volume of spam is only going to get worse and although it may not take me long now to filter out all my junk email, I know that at some later point in time, when everyone who wants a high speed connection gets one, that you will be in the same exact situation dialup users are in now. Given how many broadband ISPs are now imposing download caps, would you say its fair that you will have to pay extra for the pleasure of spending your own time to filter out this crap? I think not.
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Wills
join:2001-01-03
Port Charlotte, FL | Yes I have had dialup. No I have never had to sift through spam in order to do something productive because I know how to avoid spam. If you have had to do this, then you should learn how to avoid it.
I don't have to filter out anything because I dont get anything.
The only people that whine about spam are those too dumb or too lazy to avoid it. Why should we spend even more government time and tax payer to regulate it from the idiots?
The easiest way to stop spam is to not ask for it. If you get it, you have asked for it one way or another. And as usual, you now want the government to bandage YOUR booboo.
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | said by Wills:
The easiest way to stop spam is to not ask for it. If you get it, you have asked for it one way or another.
Why should I have to come up with some obfuscated, hard to use email address just to appease spammers? That kinda breaks the whole point of email.
Granted, I agree with you that a government "solution" will only fubar things more. I prefer more extreme measures to keep my email clean (I've detailed them in other posts), and they are far more effective anyway.
The only reason I mentioned dialup was because all the filtering I did was done on the client end, so it had to physically download all this crap before anything could be done with it.
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Spoken like a true spammer. Even if you aren't one, you're no better if you defend them.
You haven't answered my question: How are you supposed to know what sites are going to give away your information? Psychic powers? Not all of us have them. Magic 8-ball? They don't always work. What's the trick here? Inquiring minds want to know. |
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 adnoctumStatus Woe
join:2003-05-18
Athens, GA | reply to Wills
Exactly. Amen. I consider myself to be technologically deficient, and seem to avoid most spam. Either its all the fake email addresses that I give out (this is a fantastic time to get creative) or I have super powers and do not have the technological insight to realize it. I think we need more of a fend for yourself attitude in this county. Everyone stop whining. The ads for member enlargement, I assure you all, are not sent to your mailboxes with knowing, sibilant insight. |
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mikeymanPremium
join:2002-11-11
Bakersfield, CA | reply to Wills
said by Wills:
The easiest way to stop spam is to not ask for it.
Thats not true. If I buy a product online from a company, is that asking for spam? Give me a break. Most of these companies selling email addresses are companies that you order products from and to make them a little extra money on the side, they sell your info. How is that asking for spam? |
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