Iron Flatline
04-07-2006, 05:39 PM
I will search the forums in a second, but I just wanted to vent about spammers.
I can't believe that people out there are actually such @$$holes that they want to take someone's virtual place of personal creative expression and use it to drive traffic to porn sites, viagra, and cheap stocks.
I have to say one thing though: as long as everyone just shrugs their shoulders and accepts this as the price of being online, we will never get rid of it. Not sure what we can do, but keep an eye open and be ready to help people who are thinking about ways to deal with spam.
Sorry, there's no way that I'm willing to look at spam as some kind of 1st Amendment issue - it's just like grafitti or posting bills on someone's front yard. The amount of time it takes me to delete spam now is about 30 minutes per day. If you take the cost of what an hour of my life costs, and average that out over hundreds (or thousands) of people who have to use their time the same way, it starts looking like an expensive problem in terms of lost productivity.
Nota bene to non-Americans: 1st Amendment gives Americans the right to Free Speech. Most other democracies also ensure the same rights in their own way, except in extreme cases.
I can't believe that people out there are actually such @$$holes that they want to take someone's virtual place of personal creative expression and use it to drive traffic to porn sites, viagra, and cheap stocks.
I have to say one thing though: as long as everyone just shrugs their shoulders and accepts this as the price of being online, we will never get rid of it. Not sure what we can do, but keep an eye open and be ready to help people who are thinking about ways to deal with spam.
Sorry, there's no way that I'm willing to look at spam as some kind of 1st Amendment issue - it's just like grafitti or posting bills on someone's front yard. The amount of time it takes me to delete spam now is about 30 minutes per day. If you take the cost of what an hour of my life costs, and average that out over hundreds (or thousands) of people who have to use their time the same way, it starts looking like an expensive problem in terms of lost productivity.
Nota bene to non-Americans: 1st Amendment gives Americans the right to Free Speech. Most other democracies also ensure the same rights in their own way, except in extreme cases.