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UK To Hold Public Enquiry On Spam
feepcreature writes "Is something going to be done about email spam at last? In the UK, the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group is to hold a public enquiry into spam. These politicians seem to understand the scale of the spam problem, and they are considering a new global level organization to deal with the Internet, as well as new laws, inter-government action and technical solutions.
But will more international bodies help? Would laws work?"
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Rejoice and run to the streets, freedom from spam is near!!!
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Man:
Evening, squire!
Man with hat:
Good evening.
Man:
Is your...is your wife a spammer?
Man with hat:
I-I...I beg your pardon?
Man::
Your...your wife. Does she spam, eh? Does she spam, eh? Eh?
Man with hat:
Huh, sometimes she has to spam, yes.
Man:
I bet she does! I bet she does! Say no more! Say no more! Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge!
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If spam is outlawed, only outlaws will get YOUNG HOT SLUTS!!! AND VIAGRA NOW!!
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Hmmm, I wonder if they'll need a Unix admin. :-)
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Paramilitary instead of Parliamentary?
For a second there, I was thinking to myself "Man, those Brits take spam SERIOUSLY."
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Just tell us who to invade and we'll be right on it!
I'm not in the UK, so I can't tell my story there, but spam has ruined my life!
First of all, it's almost impossible to answer all of it! But that's just the beginning of the problem.
At first, I thought it was great. I got tons of credit, a new mortgage at 0%, and a fat check from some guy in Nigeria. But now my 'manhood' and my wife's breasts are so huge that neither of us can move or even feed ourselves.
If we didn't have the army of hot teenage sluts to take care of us, we'd be dead by now.
I hope they will put an end to spam before any more innocent people suffer this horrible fate.
APIG is investigating spam... verrrry interesting. But not funny.
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Since when was a house of Lords debate an indication of anything other than the fact the members still have a pulse?Oh, I agree completely, it's just that sometimes I wonder whether the House of Lords is a debating chamber or purely a prelude to a failed attempt to join the stand up comedy circuit.
So a parlimentary group is is about to hold an enquiry with a view to forming a commitee to creating an organisation which will in turn look into way to implement new laws (which will require a consensus of opinion from a large number of countries) with a view to combating spam.
It's as good as over for Ralsky! Yep, in about 30 years he'll find it tough when the first law is passed!
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
We are just going to have to develop true AI, train it to the maturity level of a 12yr old. Now we have a perfect spam detection unit. All we have to do is show it peeks of pr0n for every spam detected and it will work day and night!
I dislike spam a lot, but you have to love it spam when spam occurs so spam often everywhere. I spam counted no fewer spam than 15 references to spam in the spam article.
I can just hear it start: "Spam, spam, spam, spam..."
(Anyone who didn't get that needs to watch more Monty Python. They coined the term.)