I'm only hoping that throughout all of this, the state I live in (Washington) will also enact laws to protect people from spam so that companies that promote this trash are punished for the continued harassment of PC users. I'm sick of opening up Outlook Express and seeing my inbox bombarded with useless junkmail that I have no use for. 20-30 messages, and sometimes even more, plague my email system and my block list and mail rules list is a mile long just to stifle the flow even a little. Only a few messages are relevant but wading through piles of junk just to get to those emails is frustrating enough.
People out there might think this is frivolous. But it's not. Imagine a company you owned being flooded with spam? You would have to wade through all of that junk just to find emails that applied to you. It costs me time and money to sort through email and any law that can save said funds is a good law.
Who cares if people that earn money from spam are hurt by such laws? They chose to do something that the majority of the population despises and it's their fault. Advertising can be made via more acceptable alternatives than churning out millions of emails to people in the hopes that a handfull might respond. People who wish to break FCC regulations and state laws just so Joe B. PCUser can read about some new mortgage broker or what have you DESERVE all the lawsuits they get. These spammers even go so far as to forge email headers to hide their information just to break the law.
My only hope is that eventually all unsolicited advertising is brought to a screeching halt. Telemarketers, junk email, and even junk mail in your mailbox needs to stop. Otherwise we're all doomed to perpetual and costly spam. It's evil, it's illegal, and by God I hope that everyone takes part in it starts paying out their noses for it. Then maybe they'll get a clue....
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I'm only hoping that throughout all of this, the state I live in (Washington) will also enact laws to protect people from spam so that companies that promote this trash are punished for the continued harassment of PC users. I'm sick of opening up Outlook Express and seeing my inbox bombarded with useless junkmail that I have no use for. 20-30 messages, and sometimes even more, plague my email system and my block list and mail rules list is a mile long just to stifle the flow even a little. Only a few messages are relevant but wading through piles of junk just to get to those emails is frustrating enough. People out there might think this is frivolous. But it's not. Imagine a company you owned being flooded with spam? You would have to wade through all of that junk just to find emails that applied to you. It costs me time and money to sort through email and any law that can save said funds is a good law. Who cares if people that earn money from spam are hurt by such laws? They chose to do something that the majority of the population despises and it's their fault. Advertising can be made via more acceptable alternatives than churning out millions of emails to people in the hopes that a handfull might respond. People who wish to break FCC regulations and state laws just so Joe B. PCUser can read about some new mortgage broker or what have you DESERVE all the lawsuits they get. These spammers even go so far as to forge email headers to hide their information just to break the law. My only hope is that eventually all unsolicited advertising is brought to a screeching halt. Telemarketers, junk email, and even junk mail in your mailbox needs to stop. Otherwise we're all doomed to perpetual and costly spam. It's evil, it's illegal, and by God I hope that everyone takes part in it starts paying out their noses for it. Then maybe they'll get a clue....