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Spammers Pleased with 'Anti'-Spam Act
grung0r writes "A post at Ed Foster's Gripelog explains why the new anti-spam law that Congress is passing isn't a good idea: 'it's clear that only the Direct Marketing Association, Microsoft, AOL and a handful of others had any input into the law, because it's carefully crafted to allow the big marketers free reign. And the loopholes it provides them will be more than big enough to provide aid and comfort for the smallest and sleaziest of spammers as well.' More about the problems with the law can be found at cauce.org." The direct marketers are dancing in the streets over it.
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...into thinking this would stop spam anyway?
Nothing can stop spam outside of God.
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then they are entering a business transcation with you.
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At that point, feel free to inquire over, and over, and over again about all of their services, and not purchase anything. And their upstream marketing service providers. Chat up their 1-8xx call center staff. Try to see if they're free on Friday.
You will strangely find the front pages to all their websites VERY interesting, worthy of 200 views per hour. Especially all the images in the
It's pro business, after all. Pro-ISP and Pro-Telcom... hehehe.
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I think of CAN like put it in the trashCAN or CAN it buddy, oh crap I sound like a sixty year old...
Onward to the Aether Sphere!
is that the govvies are at least TRYING (however uselessly) to solve some of the spam problem. I would've given each spammer 40 lashes, but seeing as special interest groups (including spammers) dominate government nowadays, I'll take what I can get.
I'll never understand anyone that would apply some sort of tropical paste or consume anything they got from a spam that has intentions of enlargening a part of their body. I mean, can you imagine if this thing doesn't stop growing? I mean imagine if this thing that doesn't stop growing get supplimented with something that makes it 'rock hard' for days on end. Could you imagine the issues? And on top of that, the gaurentee you get from these people is "MAYBE" you'll get your money back, if you can hunt them down. So you're stuck with some sort of 12 foot, rock hard object that you have to walk around town with. They should be sent a darwin award with each purchase too..
About, oh, 80-100 characters to the right of the Subject line is a very clear label - "afdgkbj gfda hnrabs sf bgfb sfgfda nhmflwje" :-)
``This bill does not stop a single spam from being sent. It only makes that spam slightly more truthful. whoo hoo! now my penis realy will be 20% bigger!
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I can't see anyone has mentioned the hilarious and honest name of this new act: CAN-SPAM ("Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act").
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
Seriously speaking, I have absolutely no idea whatsoever why anyone is bothered by spam. My ISP runs SpamAssassin, which spam-scores every inbound message and munges the headers with that score. My procmail sorts anything over a particular score into a spam folder, which I periodically empty, usually with a cursory glance to see if there are any false positives (I haven't seen one for four months, by the way). Anywhere from zero to five spams reach my inbox every day, which I delete; if the number starts to creep higher, I might lower my filter threshold. And that's it. Total labor input from me is about fifteen minutes a week. I spend more time than that rinsing out the office coffee pot. So why all this outrage and law-making and angst?
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
Perhaps someone should, anonymously, send all the congresscritters about 10,000+ emails saying nothing but "THIS IS SPAM. THIS IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE CAN SPAM LAW!"
It MIGHT clue them in, but then again...
Put a "Kneecap Spammers for Jesus" bumper sticker on your car. If you see anyone giving you a shifty look, grab your hammer!
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