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Spam Capital of the World

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-of-the-U.S. dept.

ermita2 writes "The South Florida Sun-Sentinel published this weekend a story about how South Florida is home to more spammers than any other place in the world according to Spamhaus. The reason for that seems to be Florida's long history and friendliness with dirty business from real estate speculation to the penny stock scammers. Among the interesting tidbits is anecdotal evidence that the amount of spam worldwide fell for a while after last year's hurricanes in Florida."

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  1. solution by cryptoz · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So...all we have to do is take away the right of everyone down there to use a computer and our spam problem will be solved!

    Okay, seriously though. Spam exists for a reason. It exists because it works. So, why is there *so* much emphasis on trying to kill the spam from the source rather than educating people? Because if people just *knew* not to buy things from e-mail (have you EVER seen a legal warning that says "Caution: Buying products through e-mail is dangerous and stupid"? Didn't think so.).

    I swear, if spam didn't make money, it wouldn't exist. So why don't we try to educate the population? It only takes a few stickers on PCs and a few lines of warning on hotmail.com...If MS cares at ALL about making the spam issue a small issue, they would do something about it.

    1. Re:solution by Jaiwithani · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Economics problem - spam is profitable as long as 0.01% of the spammed masses buy the pills. As long as there are just a few idiots buying into the crap, we all get spammed.

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  2. Re:Nuclear option? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and social security would be solvent for another 50 years

  3. Re:Lower 48 by rco3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You speak as a man who knows nothing about his subject - no surprise, this is Slashdot.

    Mississippi is a MUCH worse place than Florida. People in *Alabama* regularly thank God that they don't live in Mississippi.

    Personally, I'd much rather live in Florida than, say... [shudder] New Jersey!

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  4. Re:Florida is deffinitelly a crookland... by Greyfox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I suspect that part of his motivation for that is the 3 or 4 people a year who have alligators come into their houses during mating season. They shoot the alligators and are subsequently prosecuted for discharging a firearm within city limits. Although this law seems more geared toward human criminals, I suspect that its main application will be for reptile ones.

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  5. Re:Is it too late by MysteriousPreacher · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Spam is as necessary and useful as me standing in your street at night with a bullhorn shouting sales pitches at the sky.

    There's a big difference between advertising and unwanted solicitation.

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  6. Re:Great now we have a target. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "I've heard some geologists talk about the Florida being in a risk of falling into the ocean soon"

    Please let it happen soon. There's more crap coming from that part of the World these days than I can stomach.

  7. Re:Florida is deffinitelly a crookland... by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What the hell do firearms have to do with a "crookland?" Troll. Just because you don't agree with one decision with the governor doesn't mean "Florida is deffinitelly a crookland."
    Last time I checked Washington DC leads the nation in violence and firearms are banned out right there.

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  8. Re:Don't suppose... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't get it. What's so funny about .sfl? Dictionary.com says SFL is

    System Function Language. Assembly language for the ICL2900.
    "SFL Language Definition Manual", TR 6413, Intl Computers Ltd.