Like most people I receive a lot of spam, although most of it amuses me more than irritates me (I especially find the foreign language spam amusing). But a lot of people hate spam to the point where sometimes I suspect the anti-spam zealots are as bad, if not worse, than the spammers.
Case in point is this comment posted by Jamie McCarthy at Slashdot today,
Costs have to be attached to sending mail to strangers, either micropayments or risk of jail. As long as mail’s dirt-cheap to send, spam will be vying for our attention, scurrying-around clean-up crews notwithstanding.
Everytime a stranger e-mails me, they should have to risk going to jail or have to pay some sort of per-email charge? Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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