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Spam Meeting Wrap-up
wendigo2002 writes "Get used to that daily flood of e-mail come-ons, Viagra offers and lucrative enticements to invest in Nigerian pyramid schemes. Internet gurus, software designers and lawyers today ended a three-day Federal Trade Commission discussion on combating spam by concluding neither technology nor laws are yet capable of completely dealing with the plague."
they might work better if they got spammed every day? If we can persuade these guys to get hotmail addresses, they might understand better...
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
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Yay for meetings to determine that which you already know.
I've always thought that this is a golden opportunity for La Cosa Nostra. They could sell spam protection insurance. Get spammed? Guido will pay the spammer a visit and "explain" how spamming is not conducive to a long and healthy life.
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Motohiro Tsuchiya, a communications professor with the International University of Japan, said Friday that about 80 percent of spam in Japan comes from outside the country and most of it is in English.
``We are now importing more spam from the United States,'' he joked.
Yeah! Finally Japanese importation of at least one U.S. product exceeds their exportation!
"We are excited at the news to increase the amounts of this highly desirable content that we email every day," said Xing Dung Ho Chung, president of some organization in China that sends over 5 billion SPAM emails daily. "Our customers will be very pleased when download times increase proportionally with the desirable noise to undesirable signal ratio as we flood the Internet with our information, preventing undesirable signal from getting through."
Hong Dong Chong Shlong commented, "Our goal is to reduce the Internet into a medium for advertising with no possibility of gaining any other use from it. Our long term plans include government lobbying to illegalize the information that people want while simultaneously forcing people to spend a minimum quota of time reading every word of SPAM and clicking on every full screen advertisement that comes up. Strategic partnerships with computer companies and additional legislation will force the consumer to purchase a new computer each day because the hard drive of yesterday's computer will break down with the wear and tear of yesterday's immeasurable amount of SPAM."
SPAM companies also indicated plans to lobby for laws requiring the consumer to purchase every product and service advertised to them. The long term plan is to give huge multinational corporations an easy method to eternal, perpetually increasing profits with no benefit to the consumer. Humanity, except the shareholders of several enormous conglomerates, will be enslaved forever.
Yeah, instead they should watch primtime US TV. That would give them a realistic picture...
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