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Prediction: Spam Will Be Gone In Two Years
from the wanna-bet? dept
A professor from Singapore is now predicting that spam will be gone within two years because we, as a society, won't permit it to continue. He believes that since so many people hate spam, some sort of solution against this tyranny of the minority will magically present itself. "It [the elimination of spam] will happen within one or two years, simply because it is so intolerable." While it would be nice if he were right, it's difficult to be so optimistic.
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Some older forms of spam have disappeared
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Re: Some older forms of spam have disappeared
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Re: Some older forms of spam have disappeared
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
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Re: faulty logic
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?
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I have a different prediction ...
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