On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Steve wrote:
> On the other side, in times of war different rules apply. Question is are we
> at that junction and will we get the freedom back once the war is won?
Will the war ever be over? There's no "fullfillment" or exit condition.
If the war continues while there's "terrorism" (an ill-defined condition
anyhow), there has been and will always be that in the world and in the
US.
> Besides all those minor points, I love anything that lowers profitability
> for spammers.
Thing is, the cost of participating is already so low... you have to make
it actually _cost_ money to spam in order for that approach to work.
> Now maybe we can use spam to stop spam. If we spam education about spam with
> an alternative solution and then have special offers lists for people to
> subscribe to, maybe that could have a decent degree of workability.
I would be pissed if a got anti-spam spam (not that I read UCE anyhow).
It seems to me to be equivalent to an SMB popup advertising a
popup-blocker. (Which I don't get... wrong OS, and my connection to the
net has been NATted for several years.)
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