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Congress Loves Spam -- If It's From Congress
Makarand writes "According to this NY Times article (registration required), while Congressional members were busy
passing the U.S. anti-spam law that will go into effect on January 1, they were also busy
sending unsolicited e-mail to their constituents. This activity was aimed at growing the subscriber base receiving their political messages because these email lists are not subject to the normal 90-day blackout period before an election where members are forbidden to use taxpayer-supported Congressional mass communications. Consumer advocacy groups say that this policy may be unfair to the challengers because this loophole could be used by elected officials to communicate with voters right up to Election Day."
" I think spammers are going to start a bunch of lil grassroots political parties. They will band together and form the penis party, and sell penis creams, pills, and lord knows what else to "support" the party.
The only real solution is to have terrorists start using spam to fund their operations... only with that boogieman out of the closet will congress do anything about spam"
Don't be so sure that terrorists aren't already into spam... Or at least into profiting off the fradulent "products" that 99% of spam seems to hawk...
Terrorist groups are the new mafia in the world. The underworld tends to fund itself by the illegal. IMHO, ppammers like Ralsky would gladly sell spam services to Al Queida for a fast buck to hawk fake penis pills supplied from some Palestinian placebo factory, that is, if his observed morals are consistent...
I consider spam ITSELF to be a form of terrorism. It has made my e-mail services virtually useless. Spam is now up to 90% of all the e-mail I receive. That is up from 60% only 6 months ago. As far as I'm concerned, rounding them up and holding them in Cuba without trial and without access to lawyers (while blasting inane commercials at them 24/7) is too good for them.
Corporatism != Free Market