Billy's Junk Mail

[raburgeson]

Who's Gates trying to kid, his software is so easy to break into even children are cracking his operating systems. There is no security in his programs and this new generation of junk mail is his fault, not the end user's. Then Billy gets the bright idea that people should pay for email. Gates should have to pay everyone who has lost time fighting viruses, trojans, spam, adware, and hacker damage. He should have to pay for the lack of bandwidth (speacially for the people using other operating systems) caused by his junk software. But there he is with his hand out as if he needs more money, question is how gallable are you?

[Xeen]

Ya I heard something about this. Do you have a link?

[Fett101]

How is spam Billy's fault?

[Xeen]

quote:Originally posted by Fett101:
How is spam Billy's fault?

It's not. But some of his ideas for dealing with it are dumb.

[Kintaro]

quote:Originally posted by Fett101:
How is spam Billy's fault?

seconded.

[Fett101]

It would work though. Charge 1 cent per email and suddenly spammers can't make a profit.

[WMD]

Yeah, but what about the free webmail services?  

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by Fett101:
It would work though. Charge 1 cent per email and suddenly spammers can't make a profit.

Oh come on.  Yes let's all
1)  pay a tax to Bill Gates to get rid of spam
2)  encumber the email protocol with patented, proprietary MS crap

just to get rid of spam.  Riiiiight.

Sounds alot like the "let's sacrifice freedom for security but end up with neither."

Don't be fooled.  This is just one more example of MS trying going for user lock-in and trying to make the information super highway into a toll road.

[ March 09, 2004: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[Fett101]

I said that if e-mails were 1 cent spam would stop. I didn't say a thing about Microsoft of Billy.

[Refalm]

Many thanks to tronsixpoint.o for providing us with this link:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/05/spam.charge.ap/index.html

[Xeen]

quote:Originally posted by Refalm:
Many thanks to tronsixpoint.o for providing us with this link:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/05/spam.charge.ap/index.html

 

quote:If the U.S. Postal Service delivered mail for free, our mailboxes would surely runneth over with more credit-card offers, sweepstakes entries, and supermarket fliers.

Umm...the US Postal Service is NOT free and I STILL get weekly credit card offers, biweekly sweepstakes entries, and almost daily supermarket fliers. What the fuck was the author of that article talking about?

[Fett101]

Yeah, you may get a few each day or so, but you don't get 50 in one day.

[Commander]

spam will soon be like popups... it can be controlled
i use thunderbird for my email and i do not get 50 spams a day, i assure you.  the builtin spam filter works like a charm after a few weeks.

and i second xeen.  charging wont help..  it will merely slow it down and, without a doubt, cause more problems then any one of us would like to handle.