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Originally posted by quiet
do you really think spamming is equivalent to fucking people's lives over? i've never had anything to do with a single instance of spam, but i'm not necessarily against it either.
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It's fucking the internet over. I know people who try to run businesses and can't answer their own clients because of untargetted email spam. Go visit yahoogroups, etc and you will see the same case. Decent people start groups to talk about trees and the environment or some other such subject, and than a bot destroys the whole thing. Of course there is ways around it, and as a webmaster I am hardly bothered by spam (because I know how to avoid it). But you get the average person online and it can really destroy their experience.
This goes for spyware, etc too. Every average persons computer I hop on is loaded up with this shit. In a few recent instances I have noticed new search bars installed on someones computer (I noticed this on two different computers) in which it disables the IE address bar (i.e. so their only option is to use their search to navigate the web). It is hard to argue that this stuff isn't ruining a persons experience online in general.