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   Bacterial sex

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 28th, 2003 @ 3:16am

   
   

   As you are reading this, millions of gram-negative bacteria on your skin are having sex. Yes, the "F+" males are squirting their plasmid DNA into "F-" females through long thin tubes called pili.
   
   The bacteria on your body outnumber your body cells ten to one, yet you survive and even depend on bacteria. So it is with spam -- perhaps they will exchange their genes with computer viruses, worms, and the other microbes of the software universe, to someday create beneficial bacteria.
   

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   Save the Endangered Spam

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 28th, 2003 @ 3:34am

   
   

   In our natural evolutionary adaptation as cavemen, our bodies were once a black fog of fleas, our hair a white blizzard of lice, our intenstines a spaghetti bowl of worms, our skin home to more bacteria than stars in the universe. Cavemen opened holes in their skull because they occasionally found worms living in there too. Some of our autoimmune disorders are thought to come from the excessive hygiene of modern life -- the immune system keeps itself busy by attacking the body's own tissues.
   
   We have created the next dimension of life, when the petri dish of the internet is a universe of elementary particles called Viagra, MAKE-MONEY-FAST, and HOT-TEEN-BABES. Galaxies of popup windows are forming the first star systems, and the dark energy of spam filters is slowly causing the universe to die.
   
   

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   costs...

   

   thecaptain, Jul 28th, 2003 @ 6:36am

   
   

   the reports assigning costs are MISSING the point.
   Whether the cost is a penny a day or 10 bucks a day because of spam DOES NOT MATTER. This is a cost that is put upon me without my consent and I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY IT.
   
   

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   cost of spam

   

   Gord B., Jul 29th, 2003 @ 1:20am

   
   

   Cost is not the point when it comes to spam-- that appears to be an american idea. The real issue is more like what might be called 'emotional expenditure'... or what the lawyers might term 'mental anguish'. Slightly off topic... Most of mine is made up of outrage. Every time I get a piece of email from someone I don't know, with an attachment that can only be something bad, I feel like someone has taken a dump in my inbox. The outrageous part is, I never did a thing to them, whoever they are.

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