For as long as I've owned a computer (10 years) I've hated spam and spammers. I've read countless forums and suggestions about how to end it and them. Sadly, instead of betting better, the spam problem continues to worsen.
What is usually glaringly missing from these years of discussion is what I consider to be a simple solution: require every new computer buyer/owner to watch a video discussing spam (call it Computing 101 - required reading). Obviously, spammers exist because at least a *few* people buy into their so-called product.
If everyone would use their heads instead of their emotions and realize no stranger from Nigeria has $1,000,000 sitting in a bank awaiting you to claim it, no company is going to give you a life of ease if you simply fill out a form, and no super-hot chick on CL is simply dying to meet you (all you have to do is sign up - and pay a monthly fee to meet her) the spammers would have no one buying their sh*t -- and be gone overnight.
Stop the naive customers and you'll stop the spammers….
Well, I can dream, can’t I?
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End spamming!
For as long as I've owned a computer (10 years) I've hated spam and spammers. I've read countless forums and suggestions about how to end it and them. Sadly, instead of betting better, the spam problem continues to worsen.
What is usually glaringly missing from these years of discussion is what I consider to be a simple solution: require every new computer buyer/owner to watch a video discussing spam (call it Computing 101 - required reading). Obviously, spammers exist because at least a *few* people buy into their so-called product.
If everyone would use their heads instead of their emotions and realize no stranger from Nigeria has $1,000,000 sitting in a bank awaiting you to claim it, no company is going to give you a life of ease if you simply fill out a form, and no super-hot chick on CL is simply dying to meet you (all you have to do is sign up - and pay a monthly fee to meet her) the spammers would have no one buying their sh*t -- and be gone overnight.
Stop the naive customers and you'll stop the spammers….
Well, I can dream, can’t I?