AtomicZero
join:2004-11-24
West Palm Beach, FL
| reply to fireflier
Re: So what?
All this legal mumbo-jumbo about anti-spamming laws is just a front anyway. Spamming is a part of all that is commercial, so you know there's some Fat-Cat somewheres getting rich off of it. And to top it off it's the Internet, unregulated chaos in all it's glory. Maybe if you find the fat-cat you can cripple spamming but I doubt you can kill it.
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fireflier
Coffee. . .Need Coffee
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join:2001-05-25
Limbo
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| reply to cbiggers
If spam continues unabated things will get much much worse. If nobody pursues a means to stop or reduce it, it could easily put an end to the useful reliablity of email--a means of communications many people are reliant on for business and personal communications. The problem is, we didn't do enough sooner to squash it before it got big.
Are there other important things in life? Sure, and helping others as you point out is a noble cause, but simply because spam doesn't concern you (or isn't high on your priority list) doesn't mean it isn't a serious problem. It costs industry a lot of money to deal with it in terms of bandwidth, computing power, and personnel time.
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cbiggers
join:2000-08-10
San Luis Obispo, CA
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| I honestly don't see what all the fuss is about for spam. Is it annoying? Yes. Does it require all these vigilantes trying to stop it? No. Get a life and do something productive with the one you own. Instead of wasting your time trying to stop how much email you get, go volunteer at a local homeless shelter, or go give blood. Actually do something to improve someone else' life in a more positive way than preventing how much spam email they get...give me a break. |
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