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reply to Doctor Olds

Re: Gates needs to purchase stock options in a clue.

said by Doctor Olds:

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tracking the buyers of the Spammers services down and fining them is the only solution.

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If Spaming becomes truly illegal, then buying it as a service would be truly illegal too. You misunderstand. I don't mean the people getting the Spam being the buyers, I mean the companies buying the Spammers email service.

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reply to fancydancer
That's not true. The problem with spam is that the cost to advertise is 0. Nada. Zilch. Therefore, if even one person buys, you've made a profit. MS is trying to raise the cost, in their own short-sighted, biased and self-centric way (I'm sure Intel wants more cycles burned too).

The long term solution to spam involved raising the cost to advertise; then there is no return to blast out zillions of emails to everyone and their cat. This is why companies pay more for "targeted" lists (snail mail and otherwise).

That's a great idea to make it more expensive for the spammers to advertise but how possible is it? We are dealing with a major design flaw when it comes to the Internet. It simply was not meant for all this regulation and control. Believe me, I would love to see it happen. Unfortunately it will probably get to the point where you need to deposit money to send an email or present a credit card to use a computer. It just goes to show you that a few bad apples (spammers) spoil it for the rest of us.
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reply to dda

said by dda:

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The long term solution to spam involved raising the cost to advertise; then there is no return to blast out zillions of emails to everyone and their cat. more for "targeted" lists (snail mail and otherwise).

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