Love that Spam

ID:1071
 
Jun 17 2005, 4:06 pm
A new personal best: I haven't checked my email for a few days, and now Thunderbird is busy pulling down my 13,346 new messages. Hooray!
Jun 17 2005, 4:10 pm
I have to say Gughunter, that must be alot of porn. Joking, but why would you have that many emails. You must sign up for alot...
Jun 17 2005, 4:23 pm
Of course, the real tragedy here is that this impacts me!

Now that we've got a game to work on again, we gotta figure out how to communicate in this modern world where usually there are all too many ways to communicate...
Jun 17 2005, 5:55 pm
Yeah, I nuked one of my e-mail accounts because of mass spammage.

I still don't see why Congress is so hesitant to give citizens a private cause of action against spam-advertisers. Slap their behinds with a multi-million dollar class action suit and you can bet that garbage will stop!
Jun 17 2005, 7:21 pm
GD, I think it mainly comes from owning several domain names -- the spammers can look up contact addresses in the "whois" list, or something along those lines.

Ron -- I'm sure we'll figure out something! You can try sending to my extra-secret email account (that your filter blocked the other day)...

Jmurph, I haven't followed the laws about spam closely, but I agree that given the "tragedy of the commons" nature of the Internet, some kind of legislative action would be appropriate. I hate to say that, because IMHO, legislatures tend to hunt mosquitoes with elephant guns... but at the bare minimum it would be fair to require spammers to mark their emails with a standardized machine-recognizable tag (or one of a set of standard tags -- advertisement, political solicitation, etc.) and to provide valid contact information and a non-rigged opt-out option. Also, makers of viruses and spyware should be hanged...
Jun 18 2005, 5:32 am
"Also, makers of viruses and spyware should be hanged..."


If Bush announces "The War Against Spyware", then he'd definitely get my vote.


If I could vote, of course.
Jun 19 2005, 6:31 am
spam spam spam!



mmm... spam!

Anyways, I get my spam/viruses auto-deleted by my mailserver. So I don't worry about that stuff. Also, I usually don't read/write my e-mail in anything other that plain text format.

Saves a lot.