Gates issues 'progress report' on spam

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"where's the issue? " - I'll tell you...

You stated the issue. You yourself said "I pay for e-mail to be delivered, not blocked". Well I also pay for the email, not the spammers. At lease the junkmail is paid for by the sender, here I'm paying for it and in turn the infrastructure that it is sent on, and don't want everyone with a computer sending me unsolicited mail.
I and others don't want to learn how to DEAL with spam, it's getting in the way of communications. It wouldn't be good to get 3 telemarketer phone calls for every regular one we get. It affects businesses also. My friend gets over 100 spam emails a day, past their company's giant spam filter. He spends a good deal of time sorting it out everyday. Someone is paying for that time, and that cost is getting passed on to us.
He works for a giant drug company. If most people in the company have to sort through spam, let's figure everytime you get sick, and get one of those $2/a pill prescriptions. Figure a nickel or so per pill- goes right in the pocket of spammers.
Well, I'm off to go throw out the spam in my inbox.. again.

Posted by: el1jones   Posted on: 06/29/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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