I'm quote probably not right about this. But isn't this the same basis that a common microwave works on? sending out microwave radiation at a certain frequency at which water,fat etc absorb energy?
oh lord, o.k. given that the "West" you're talking about are Western Europeans prior to the 16th century, I'd advise you had a little gander at what you're thinking.. and please come again
yeeesh, you can't possibly think you're not being slightly extreme here. I acknowledge the whole insect scent thing.. but giving the chair to one of them? These people aren't eating your babies... there's... hundreds.. and thousands of things that are making the world worse for everyone. Your perception is that spammers make the *whole world* so much worse, if they'd all get the chair.. then you're telling me it's justified for a hippie to jump onto their bicycle with a shotgun and pop every SUV driver out there cause they're making "the world worse for everyone" by destroying the ozone?.. that's *ONE* of the.. HUNDREDS of things that's making the world worse for everyone over spam
hmmm, it is plausible that spam costs a lot of time/effort/money... but you can't be arguing that it takes more resources to filter emails than to generate and send those. Lets not forget that although you've spent all this.. work on spam filters, all your spam doesn't originate from one person. So you can hardly blame the one guy/company alone in Australia. It does have to start somewhere... but lets try another analogy.. if you've got a steamy pie sitting on a windowsill and there's flies flying around it... if you take one aside and pull its wings out and torture it... it *might* discourage other flies (yes I'm comparing the brainpower of a spammer to a fly's attraction to desert), but after all! it's hardly fair to that one fly who was just one of the many flies buzzing around.
I hardly think bandwidth usage is the primary reason people are getting convicted. torrent hosting usually involves copyright infringement, which is why they get nailed harder
well I'm sure your spam filters are ringing up quite the electricity bill.. but I'm sure it takes him a lot more resources to send you that email than it does for you to block it. going back to my flyer example.. it's like saying you're ticked off at the work you have to put in to drag those flyers to the recycling bin (if you have any sort of conscience and dont just throw in the trash).. but I'd say it takes a *significantly* larger amount of effort on the part of the company who's printing and distributing the flyers... this is just like telemarketers who call your house, sure it's annoying to have to pick up the phone and hang up again... but I'm sure they're putting in slightly more effort. what I don't understand is why do we see ballistic over spam on email, when we've been dealing with spam everywhere to begin with. sure spam by email is a lot more feasible compared to the other methods so you get a larger volume of it but I hardly think it's not manageable
YES! Jail! and the next time I seen them damn kids dropping flyers on my front porch.. I'll be waiting with my shotgun.
Spam is annoying for me just as it is for the next person, but you still have to carry those flyers from the mailbox to the recycling bin (or put a recycling bin at my front door saying "Yes Flyers Please!") but that'd hardly the point.. I think jail-time would be somewhat extreme
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I'm quote probably not right about this. But isn't this the same basis that a common microwave works on? sending out microwave radiation at a certain frequency at which water,fat etc absorb energy?
oh lord, o.k. given that the "West" you're talking about are Western Europeans prior to the 16th century, I'd advise you had a little gander at what you're thinking.. and please come again
yeeesh, you can't possibly think you're not being slightly extreme here. I acknowledge the whole insect scent thing.. but giving the chair to one of them? These people aren't eating your babies... there's ... hundreds .. and thousands of things that are making the world worse for everyone. Your perception is that spammers make the *whole world* so much worse, if they'd all get the chair.. then you're telling me it's justified for a hippie to jump onto their bicycle with a shotgun and pop every SUV driver out there cause they're making "the world worse for everyone" by destroying the ozone? .. that's *ONE* of the .. HUNDREDS of things that's making the world worse for everyone over spam
hmmm, it is plausible that spam costs a lot of time/effort/money... but you can't be arguing that it takes more resources to filter emails than to generate and send those. Lets not forget that although you've spent all this .. work on spam filters, all your spam doesn't originate from one person. So you can hardly blame the one guy/company alone in Australia. It does have to start somewhere... but lets try another analogy.. if you've got a steamy pie sitting on a windowsill and there's flies flying around it ... if you take one aside and pull its wings out and torture it... it *might* discourage other flies (yes I'm comparing the brainpower of a spammer to a fly's attraction to desert), but after all! it's hardly fair to that one fly who was just one of the many flies buzzing around.
I hardly think bandwidth usage is the primary reason people are getting convicted. torrent hosting usually involves copyright infringement, which is why they get nailed harder
well I'm sure your spam filters are ringing up quite the electricity bill.. but I'm sure it takes him a lot more resources to send you that email than it does for you to block it. going back to my flyer example.. it's like saying you're ticked off at the work you have to put in to drag those flyers to the recycling bin (if you have any sort of conscience and dont just throw in the trash).. but I'd say it takes a *significantly* larger amount of effort on the part of the company who's printing and distributing the flyers... this is just like telemarketers who call your house, sure it's annoying to have to pick up the phone and hang up again... but I'm sure they're putting in slightly more effort. what I don't understand is why do we see ballistic over spam on email, when we've been dealing with spam everywhere to begin with. sure spam by email is a lot more feasible compared to the other methods so you get a larger volume of it but I hardly think it's not manageable
YES! Jail! and the next time I seen them damn kids dropping flyers on my front porch.. I'll be waiting with my shotgun. Spam is annoying for me just as it is for the next person, but you still have to carry those flyers from the mailbox to the recycling bin (or put a recycling bin at my front door saying "Yes Flyers Please!") but that'd hardly the point.. I think jail-time would be somewhat extreme