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Originally Posted by who
I wonder if spam will eventually lead to the complete obsolescence of email..?
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Maybe email will go the way of text messages... Have a small group of "carriers" be able to sell off bulk packages to "aggregators" who partition that off to their clients.
It'd be a shitty way to go, but not. Kinda torn on all that, I guess. Currently, I think I'll take the spam than go with what I mentioned.
I'm no rocket surgeon or anything, but if slashdot's taught me anything, it's getting rid of the zombie machines out there acting on the will of the spammer. We need more blast weapons capable of taking out those machines; shotguns, wide-array lasers, Glade and a Zippo, etc. Stop the infiltration of botnets and we're good to go.
Or, the world just legislates a horrid death, against all conventions, to spammers. Catch a couple, burn them at the stake and see how many other pencil-neck pricks try and hide in Siberia to spam their fake rolexes. Think about it - a bunch of hackers holed up in a desolate waste-land without their hot pockets. Have a satellite connection ready to track and reign laser fire down on them when they try and connect to the web and......