anyone already sweating??? :Graucho

not many people carry the balls to run a large illegal pharmacy operation

thats local talent for ya

If one of the mainstream articles I read can be believed it generates far more revenue than it costs - I think it said it cost US businesses something like $11 billion per year but generated $36 billion.

But since it's illegal in the US now spammers just go overseas where the profits go as well, so while it continues to cost just as much the taxable income ends up getting siphoned away from the US economy.

The law does however fulfill its basic function of creating the illusion that legislators are doing something usefull and helpful to the common voter.

Glad you responded to the idiot with some sense.

Either there are people who will post anything to get their sigs viewed, or some people here are being deliberately obtuse.

I don't get x-rated - and worse - material in my regular mailbox and much as I might like to see junk mail stopped too, it takes no time at all to flip through my mail and drop the junk in a bin. By comparison, so much of my email is spam that attempting to block it inevitably means legitimate email sometimes getting trashed too. Checking the emails which aren't highlighted and quickly scanning those that are to check that no emails I want are among them, takes longer - every time I collect my email - than checking my regular mail once a day.

No-one can send me spyware or adware via regular mail. I don't get junk mail with links claiming to let me unsubscribe but which in fact confirm my address is live, so that I get more spam. I don't get phishing attempts and viruses in my regular mail, which are made harder to spot because of all the spam they arrive with.

And at least regular mailers show some intelligence. Even if I forget to opt out, I only get mails from companies I have bought from and from people selling similar merchandise. I do not get barraged with 100's of invitations to join porn sites every day because some sponsor program sold their affiliate list and the buyers are too stupid to figure out that webmasters don't need to pay for porn.

great news but spam will never stop

Oh and one other thing... junk mail outfits don't use my address to disguise the sender, so there's no chance I'm going to have to waste hours explaining to ISP's, hosts and Uncle Tom Cobbley, that no, it wasn't me who sent out the spam that got them buried in complaints.

Its easier to quote the only rigth thing you said in that post...
"all these stupid laws just send the business overseas."

seriously thats some hardcore stupid comments man :helpme

lol fuck posted too soon for the 51 slot :)

50 spammers going to jail

whatever man. i used to mail, every sponsor i pushed required me to clean my lists daily. they don't want the heat. i didn't wanna waste my resources mailing people that will never make a purchase, and i sure don't wanna bring heat to my sponsor. nigerians and phishers are another story.

http://members.fortunecity.com/spamh...ctivateme.html


http://members.fortunecity.com/spamhatesyou/ppcs.jpg

If your real mailbox was jam packed every single day with junk mail letters to the point it wouldn't even close, you'd better believe there would be regulation. Junk snail mail is nothing more than a nucessance. SPAM is far beyond that.

great to hear that!

why did he come back to the us if he knew they were on his ass