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UK To Hold Public Enquiry On Spam

Posted by simoniker on from the obligatory-egg-and-beans-reference dept.

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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  1. Unfortunately by Mononoke · · Score: 4, Funny
    Unfortunately they misspelled the word 'public' in the notice they mass-mailed, and the notice got tossed out with the rest of the spam.

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    1. Re:Unfortunately by po8 · · Score: 3, Funny

      This old SatireWire article has a similar joke. If you want a mild laugh, Google for "initial pubic offering" and marvel at the number of hits.

  2. FINALLY!!! by SuperDuG · · Score: 4, Funny
    The nuclear powers have agreed to stop spam. I knew it would take a strong force to stop spam, I think a few globalthermonuclear weapons targeted at key locations might just do the trick.

    Rejoice and run to the streets, freedom from spam is near!!!

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    1. Re:FINALLY!!! by osu-neko · · Score: 3, Funny
      Wasn't there a site or program somewhere for translating IP addresses into grid coordinates? Could be useful...

      host-loc 24.196.258.3 | xargs missile-launch

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  3. Nudge, Nudge by inertia187 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  4. I wanna be an outlaw by L.+VeGas · · Score: 5, Funny

    If spam is outlawed, only outlaws will get YOUNG HOT SLUTS!!! AND VIAGRA NOW!!

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  5. Did anyone else read: by stinkwinkerton · · Score: 4, Funny

    Paramilitary instead of Parliamentary?

    For a second there, I was thinking to myself "Man, those Brits take spam SERIOUSLY."

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  6. The US is ready to help! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just tell us who to invade and we'll be right on it!

  7. The Horrors of SPAM by rMortyH · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. The REAL fix for spam... by shaitand · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

  9. "Spam, spam, spam, spam!" by Jman314 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.)