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Originally posted by jacobt
I really don't see how you could say that spam was/is fucking the internet over. If anything it helped fuel the growth of bandwidth that people have to play with these days - not to mention the huge industry that anti-spam software has become now.
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Example: I have a friend (actually a family friend) who runs a very profitable offline business. Every single day of his life (keep in mind that he is 50 odd) he deals with 100's of spam emails into his business account. I manage his website for him in my spare time (takes very little effort) and whenever I visit his house and turn on his computer he almost has a heartattack because of the frustration it gives him. He is one example of whom had a search bar disable his address bar, change his homepage and insert their own searchbar, whilst at the same time popping up popups all day. I have since taught him how to deal with such stuff, yet although he uses the net for dating also, he is pretty much scared to touch his PC. It literally stresses him out to log on and try to achieve a rather simple task (he is no wizz-kid), and this further affects his ability to manage his business well enough (although I am handling his online presence more now).