Comments on: Will spam get worse before it gets better? http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/03/20/will-spam-get-worse-before-it-gets-better/ Question As Conversation Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:59:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: krautland http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/03/20/will-spam-get-worse-before-it-gets-better/#comment-1744 krautland Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:08:57 +0000 http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/03/20/will-spam-get-worse-before-it-gets-better/#comment-1744 I don't accept the premise of things being bad or even worse in the first place. yesterday an offer to increase the size of my testicles to that of watermelons reached me. all with just one pill. I think that's awesome. somewhere a writer sits hunkered over a computer coming up with lines just to entertain my imagination. if the late-night talkshows had creative staffs half this good, the internet would be dead after six pm just like cnbc is. I don’t accept the premise of things being bad or even worse in the first place.
yesterday an offer to increase the size of my testicles to that of watermelons reached me. all with just one pill.

I think that’s awesome. somewhere a writer sits hunkered over a computer coming up with lines just to entertain my imagination. if the late-night talkshows had creative staffs half this good, the internet would be dead after six pm just like cnbc is.

]]> By: Marie Mon Dieu http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/03/20/will-spam-get-worse-before-it-gets-better/#comment-1706 Marie Mon Dieu Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:22:37 +0000 http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/03/20/will-spam-get-worse-before-it-gets-better/#comment-1706 I love my Gmail spamfilter. I've been using the internets since er, Tymnet in 1987 and well, before spam, there was (paper) junk mail and TV commercials. Before that there was snakeoil. A fool and his money are soon parted, as they say, so if one wants to buy spam instead of watching Monty Python, that is their business. Heck, I even remember days before the Do Not Call List. If someone called, you could do stuff like lead them on, or maybe blow a loud whistle into the phone. If they find a way to get around my spamfilter, I will do what I did in the old AOL days: click, delete, wash, repeat. I love my Gmail spamfilter. I’ve been using the internets since er, Tymnet in 1987 and well, before spam, there was (paper) junk mail and TV commercials. Before that there was snakeoil. A fool and his money are soon parted, as they say, so if one wants to buy spam instead of watching Monty Python, that is their business. Heck, I even remember days before the Do Not Call List. If someone called, you could do stuff like lead them on, or maybe blow a loud whistle into the phone.

If they find a way to get around my spamfilter, I will do what I did in the old AOL days: click, delete, wash, repeat.

]]> By: Mike Harris http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/03/20/will-spam-get-worse-before-it-gets-better/#comment-1686 Mike Harris Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:04:04 +0000 http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/03/20/will-spam-get-worse-before-it-gets-better/#comment-1686 Spam will never stop. In order to be immensely financially profitable, it relies upon a fantastically small percentage of people making purchases from a net spread nearly-Earthwide. Since there will always be a fantastically small percentage of people who are dumbf—k enough to purchase products advertised by spam, spam will always be profitable. The only way to stop this is to introduce new and extremely large costs -- and costs that are automatically incurred anywhere, in any nationality that spam is produced -- to make it unprofitable. Government regulation will not work, since spammers merely migrate servers and/or residences to locales where it is not illegal. Spam will never stop. In order to be immensely financially profitable, it relies upon a fantastically small percentage of people making purchases from a net spread nearly-Earthwide. Since there will always be a fantastically small percentage of people who are dumbf—k enough to purchase products advertised by spam, spam will always be profitable. The only way to stop this is to introduce new and extremely large costs — and costs that are automatically incurred anywhere, in any nationality that spam is produced — to make it unprofitable. Government regulation will not work, since spammers merely migrate servers and/or residences to locales where it is not illegal.

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