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@verizon.ne | LOL And people are surprised? How can a "law maker" make an effective law that is to help technology when they can't even find the power cord to their computer  ? | |
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
clubs: | Re: LOL "can spam" is and always was a joke.
Did anybody seriously think it'd make a difference? | |
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs:
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·Comcast Formerly ..
| What a waste the law is an utter joke and hit only the people who wanted to be legal and try to conform to the laws. Laws only keep the honest people honest and this is further proof.
Maybe some of the white hats can turn around and start pounding down the doors of the insecure systems used to do the spamming and maybe make a dent in the traffic soon.
Something has to be done to stop this from happening.
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Jeffrey
too dark too early
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join:2002-12-24
Dix Hills,NY
clubs: | Re: irony ...Weathermen being the 2nd profession.  | |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
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| said by Dennis  :How much longer until the generation of old rich white guys starts to panic because they have no dominion over the internet, or even the simplest working grasp of it. Kind of OT, but this describes to a tee the RIAA and MPAA
and the situation they're in right now.
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
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join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA
| Too bad... you can't skip past the spammers to the people that hire them. Cut off the money supply to the spammers and dead will be the spammers.
I see it like a contract installer for a cable company. They're independent contractors hired by the cable company. If they come into your home and commit a crime, the cable company is also partially liable since the contractor is acting as their agent.
Same should be for spammers. Companies who hire advertisers should be held partially liable if those advertisers they hire to carry their message do so in an illegal manner as they are certainly profiting from it along with the spammer. Perhaps then these companies looking to market their company will do a better job at finding ethical advertisers to carry their message. | |
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cbiggers
join:2000-08-10
San Luis Obispo, CA
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| So what? 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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fireflier
Coffee. . .Need Coffee
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join:2001-05-25
Limbo
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| Re: So what? 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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AtomicZero
join:2004-11-24
West Palm Beach, FL
| 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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AthlGrond
Premium,MVM
join:2002-04-25
Aurora, CO
·Comcast
| Well I'm just as surprised as they are Who would have thought that just passing a law would not change things.
I mean we just wave the magic law wand and every thing is all better, right?
(It must be so humbling to be a law maker in the country...)
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