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End Spam by criminalizing the purchase of their products?
Like I said you're only punishing people who would order penis enlargement pills online, or access internet kiddie porn.
I'm not saying this is the most moral solution, it is merely the most practical. Carried out right, it can be quite moral as well.
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Originally posted by Asmodean
Hey guys: I bet that faded glory is a spammer. Why else would he defend them so much.
Indeed he is. He admitted to it before.
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Originally posted by Smiley
Like I said you're only punishing people who would order penis enlargement pills online, or access internet kiddie porn.
I'm not saying this is the most moral solution, it is merely the most practical. Carried out right, it can be quite moral as well.
How can you say it's more practical? Punishing the buyers of products, so long as said products are prefectly legal, is utter nonsense. It's a complete waste of time and money to track down the indviduals who buy from spam ads (how on earth would you find this out anyway without a massive invasion of privacy). If you want to target anybody, crack down harshly on spammers.
The worst kind of spammer is the porn spammer, because they often send e-mails with very explicit titles, and often children can end up getting this spam. These people should be given prison sentences if tracked, if not tracked then their sites should be demolished by cracking.
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im not a spammer in the true sense. I use netsend to spam. and ive already defended myself on this before. I totally tell recievers how to block netsends. I dont clog your boxes with email (as you like to claim/exagerate )
I defend it because its a legitamate form of advertising. And the only reason your against it, is because the BIG guys have told you to be against it. Spam is a threat to there money-making. One guy and a program can now reach millions for free, instead of paying millions to reach maybe 100 people on TV or Radio.
Last edited by faded glory; August 18, 2003, 16:57.
Someone else is paying for the processing power and the bandwidth used to send it.
Boris, my plan would be to set up a sting operation.
Cracking down on spammers is not practical because they would simply move overseas beyond the reach of the Feds (though perhaps we could then bust 'em as terrorists?) Make it so no one buys from spam emails, and people won't bother sending them.
Visit First Cultural Industries There are reasons why I believe mankind should live in cities and let nature reclaim all the villages with the exception of a few we keep on display as horrific reminders of rural life.-Starchild Meat eating and the dominance and force projected over animals that is acompanies it is a gateway or parallel to other prejudiced beliefs such as classism, misogyny, and even racism. -General Ludd
John Q does pay, by way of the advertising that he is shown when he sends email if he is using one of those free email servers. The advertising revenue covers the costs of his email sending and recieving.
However, Joehasaproduct2sell only generates the same amount of ad revenue for the email company, but uses 10,000 times the resources. Unless Joe wants to put up with a slew of pop-up ads with every he sends, his costs get externalized to all the other email users.
Visit First Cultural Industries There are reasons why I believe mankind should live in cities and let nature reclaim all the villages with the exception of a few we keep on display as horrific reminders of rural life.-Starchild Meat eating and the dominance and force projected over animals that is acompanies it is a gateway or parallel to other prejudiced beliefs such as classism, misogyny, and even racism. -General Ludd
I see no problem with a two-cent-per-letter unsolicited e-mail tax. There would probably be clever ways around it, like joining mailing lists dedicated to other purposes and spamming them, but that's less ridiculous than paying like a dollar to pester a few thousand people you never met and who probably aren't interested in your product. Make it at least a little more difficult for them. Two cents per addressee would force the mass-mailing services to be selective about who they pestered if they wanted to keep profiting. Then we would only have to worry about forcing the spammers to overseas servers, in which case we modify our filters to block all foreign servers not on our lists. That would work fine for me.
I think the law should turn a blind eye to those that decide to "retaliate". Hack into a spammers computer or network, and fdisk them back to the 70's.
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