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KC-
You are right, spending an inordinate amount of time bitching about spam isn't going to change anything.
That was never my point, tho, my point centers around the fact the detrimental effect that porn oriented spam is eventually going to have on our industry.
You average joe blow doesn't know anything about filters or anything else like that and he will continue to recieve these messages until he has had enough of it and then will forward him to his local congressman. I can just see the field day that Jesse Helms would have with an issue like this....who knows where our industry could end up.
The problem is, it is only a small part of our industry that participates in this unsavory practice, but I fear the entire industry will bear the brunt of the public backlash.
I could care less about spam, in general. I think most people who bitch about it are just overreacting to a minor inconvenience...however, pornographic spam is an entirely different beast and one that will require some sort of action by our government to stop it. At that time, consider what other legal action they may through in to further limit our industry...to me, it's like throwing gas on the fire. At this point in time, under an attorney general who is looking for reasons to persecute this industry for any infraction, we are simply shootoing red flares up saying "shoot me".
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