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   Some older forms of spam have disappeared

   

   dorpus, Jun 16th, 2004 @ 10:44am

   
   

   We no longer see cars with blaring megaphones advertising store sales, or airplanes dropping discount coupons. Door-to-door sales are rare.

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   Re: Some older forms of spam have disappeared

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jun 16th, 2004 @ 10:56am

   
   

   so are intelligent comments from you dorpus but your spam keeps right on truckin' !

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   Re: Some older forms of spam have disappeared

   

   alternatives, Jun 16th, 2004 @ 12:06pm

   
   

   We no longer see cars with blaring megaphones advertising store sales,
   
   Anti Noise laws.
   
   or airplanes dropping discount coupons.
   
   Anti Littering laws.
   
   Door-to-door sales are rare.
   
   Laws banning door to door salesman.
   
   
   Gee, looks like the basis is enforcable laws, not "because people will find it intolerable"

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   faulty logic

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jun 16th, 2004 @ 12:20pm

   
   

   The same argument could be applied to War or prostituion.

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   Re: faulty logic

   

   Tony Lawrence, Jun 16th, 2004 @ 3:44pm

   
   

   Well, for various reasons, there are a lot of people who like wars and/or prostitution.
   
   Other than the senders, not too many people like spam, and I bet even those that do send spam hate the spam they get from other people.
   
   But how fast can we stop it? I dunno.. we haven't done it very well so far. I get 4-5 megabytes worth every single day in spite of multiple levels of filtering and blocking.
   
   
   

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   What about snail-mail spam?

   

   Bindu Wavell, Jun 17th, 2004 @ 7:54am

   
   

   I'm still being inundated by ads for pizza, warehouse stores, painting companies, investment opportunities, etc in my regular mailbox. Apparently there is enough return on investment that it pays to use all that paper and ink, to "piss off" millions of people and only have a tiny fraction of your campaign respond. I seriously doubt e-spam will just go away because it's wrong!

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   I have a different prediction ...

   

   eerilypreescient, Jun 17th, 2004 @ 11:35am

   
   

   ... spam will be gone in 2 years, because it has made email worthless. In other words, the only reason SPAM will be gone in 2 years, is because EMAIL WILL BE GONE in 2 years.

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   Anonymous Coward, Sep 27th, 2006 @ 8:06am

   
   

   It's two years later. We still have spam and email.

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