A Conference About Spam

zonker writes "January 17th will be the first (annual?) meeting of the Spam Conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The informal meeting will feature Paul Graham, John Graham-Cumming, John "Cap'n Crunch" Draper among others (possibly including ESR though he hasn't yet confirmed). The free conference will consist of a number of talks about new ways to combat the growing spam problem, after which everyone's going out and getting some Chinese food. Should be an informative and fun meeting and a chance to meet some interesting people."

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Re:It's called "advertising"

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I never understood and still don't get why people get their panties all in a bunch about a few emails from businesses that they have to read through and delete or whatever.

A few emails?!?! - Are you daft?

I get anywhere from 20 to 67 (record so far) spam-emails every day! - Sure, my email address has been around the net since 1988 and it has been featured heavily on both websites and newsfeeds, but still... That's not a 'few'!

I didn't ask for any emails and still I get them. I don't want them! How hard is that to understand?

Why should I 'hide' myself just to escape the junk mail avalanche? - I cannot and will not accept that, and neither will a lot of other people. Leave my mailbox alone, dammit!