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Minnesota Senator Says Email Tax Might Reduce Spam
indros13 writes "The Hon. Mark Dayton, Senator from Minnesota, is reportedly considering a "miniscule email tax" to counter the flood of spam. Thinking like an economist, he's obviously hoping to make mass emailing unprofitable. 'You can't say, "We want it to be totally free and unrestricted and on the other hand we want it to work smoothly and civilly," he said.' No word on how all those lobbying groups that use mass emails will respond, but I'm sure there are a few emails on the way..." Politician weasel words are part of the package, though; Dayton says a tax is "just one of the tactics that should be considered, but I don't favor it at this time."
Clearly it should go to a once-a-year ice cream party for the whole Internet.
I'm lactose intolerant you insensitive clod!
Sure, go clodbashing, you bigot.
Hey, if you were on as many painkillers as I am, you'd be laughing too.
> I likes my SpamAssassin, thanks ;^)
Me too. I especially like how the last job I applied for on Monster.com got bounced by the HR person's inbox by SpamAssasin because it "looked like spam". Maybe I used too many buzzwords in my resume...
Spam has made it difficult to set up legitimate servers to send legitimate e-mail to their indended recipients...
yet I seem to get MORE of those 1024 free AOL hours CD's now than ever before
Ever notice there's a return address? Slap a label over your address that says 'return to sender' and drop it off in a mailbox. Imagine their mailroom problems if just 10% were returned. Usually junk mail's not worth the effort since it can just be tossed in the recycling bin, but why should my landfill fill up with these CDs and their cases? Send them back and let AOL deal with it.
R: That voice. Where have I heard that voice before? B: In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.
Bugger that. Kill the damn spammer.