Web Profits in the Gutter

The New York Times has an article about the web's one true growth industry: spam, fraud and porn. Societal meltdown or flourishing ecosystem? The talking heads debate.

Comments

Success is only measured in $$$

[puckhead]

Every other measure is subjective and it would be supremely arrogant to assume that your subjective measurement is any better than the next guys.

So why don't you do something about it pansies?!

[Mustang Matt]

All you lazy bums out there that give a crap need to do something about it.

Everyone says "new laws won't solve anything" but neither does sitting around doing nothing.

Contact your state reps today and complain about the spam abusing your network resources and bandwidth.

I had a conversation with a local spammer last Friday. His theory was that the 25 emails his company sent mine weren't going to hurt my bandwidth, so then I said, what about the other 100,000 jerks like you that don't care about my operating expenses? If everyone sends me 25 pieces of UCE everyday, who pays for that bill? He didn't have an answer. I sent him a bill for $50/incident after I sent them a warning. (after the first 5 were received.)

Why can't we have a clean internet? We deserve it! It's OUR RIGHT! I pay my $1000/month T1 bill for T1 bandwidth. After all the massive amounts of spam (mostly coming from Asia) who knows how much bandwidth I'm actually getting. I can't block Asia, I have some valid customers on the other half of the world.

We need to make spammers PAY! I'm so sick of spam I don't even care if it does start getting the government involved to the point of regulation.

I guess the next step is to go down guns blazing...

Re:Fraud and Spam?

[operagost]

Any belief that undergoes the depth and length of scrutiny that the Bible has and survives is certainly worth believing in.

Your kind of trollish dismissal of the faithful as stupid or ignorant went out with Madeline Murray O'Hair. Get a new act.