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Did You Really Want To Read That Spam?

Henn writes "The BBC is carrying a story about computers that track how much attention you are paying and the "worth" of individual messages. Based on these criterion, it adjusts how intrusive to make the alerts. The story is fairly short, however you can find more depth over here." Interesting ideas, but for me it's becomming less about time- my filters catch 80% of my spam, meaning it only takes me 10-20 minutes to deal with it, and more about bandwidth. At home, on my modem, downloading several megs of spam seriously interferes with my ability to work. Yay spam!

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  1. So bascially by unterderbrucke · · Score: -1, Troll

    They have spyware monitoring your activity? Illegal, thank you.

  2. fuckin a by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i just shit my pants cause i have diarrhea and too did also can to did mama up the hole with the big lard in the tree.

    i like to pry out shit from the back of my animals . i took a shotgun to the face of my cat. he died. wtf? he wasn't supposed to.

    sometimes i fear my head itches when i cant reach it.

  3. Don't be silly. by unterderbrucke · · Score: -1, Troll

    It doesn't run Gator, just shows you an example of how spyware can get to you.

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  5. Blow it out your Pie Hole you grammar pansy by JohnnySkidmarks · · Score: -1, Troll

    Grow up you spelling bee weenie.

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