It's both a matter of principle and spam does have a financial and quality of service impact on companies and consumers.
In order to dodge spam, companies/consumers have to either spend the time manually deleting spam or put out the money to buy software to filter spam. In both these cases, spam still eats bandwidth.
Companies also have to be careful (i.e., spend time/money) that software filters do not delete legitimate email, as this could potentially have a severe imapact on their business dealings, service record, etc.
Finally, the burden of spam should fall on those responsible for it, not those that are "victimized" by it. So let's still nail the spammers.
the nuke would not need to be well-placed, i'm guessing, probably anywhere that would place servers within range of the EMP blast, not to mention the devasting social/economic impact of a blast anywhere in the country. if a nuke went off anywhere within 100 miles of where i live, broadband internet service would be a very low priority.
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Spammers use dictionary attacks when spamming, so that brand new email address was probably receiving spam before it existed.
It's both a matter of principle and spam does have a financial and quality of service impact on companies and consumers.
In order to dodge spam, companies/consumers have to either spend the time manually deleting spam or put out the money to buy software to filter spam. In both these cases, spam still eats bandwidth.
Companies also have to be careful (i.e., spend time/money) that software filters do not delete legitimate email, as this could potentially have a severe imapact on their business dealings, service record, etc.
Finally, the burden of spam should fall on those responsible for it, not those that are "victimized" by it. So let's still nail the spammers.
Hitting them in the head might work, too. Not that it's an option, but it might work.
Maybe Gates is having a little joke, but didn't want to be too obvious?
the nuke would not need to be well-placed, i'm guessing, probably anywhere that would place servers within range of the EMP blast, not to mention the devasting social/economic impact of a blast anywhere in the country. if a nuke went off anywhere within 100 miles of where i live, broadband internet service would be a very low priority.