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Let's just outlaw ALL advertising and get it over with.: Or, following Bill Gates into the abyss, let's make all advertisers (including Microsoft) pay a new fee to goverment for every advertisement they run anywhere or send to anybody. Ridiculous, isn't it? Yet that's where we're headed with this nonsense, all in the name of "privacy." Balderdash.

Has Bill Gates lost his mind? Is he really that isolated from the reality of his own existence and, at its root, the driving force that created his own wealth?

As we speak, I have not less than six "spam" emails from ZDNet - none of which I ever requested - sitting in my email box. I receive "spam" with my snail-mail on a daily basis and didn't request any of it. Every time I turn on the television or radio I am deluged with "spam" and never gave them permission to pummel me with it. Every time I read a newspaper or magazine I am assaulted with "spam" that I didn't authorize. I can't drive or walk anywhere without encountering an endless variety of "spam" planted permanently in the great outdoors, the vast majority of it distracting and useless to me.

If we're about eliminating "spam" email, let's take this opportunity to elimate ALL forms of "spam." We'll kill the goose that laid the golden egg but that's okay. We all value our non-existent "privacy" too much to concern ourselves with that.

To the collective numbskulls now concerning themselves with this alleged "spam" problem: learn how to use email filters that work just fine, thank you, in keeping "spam" under control. Simply take a few minutes to delete any email from senders you don't recognize or don't care to read WITHOUT opening it first, just as you have done with snail-mail your entire life.

As for Bill Gates, he has hired people to screen his email so he has nothing to complain about.

In reality, Gates has engaged himself and others in this politically-correct "spam" war merely to make political hay in a manner he views (short-sightedly) as harmless to his own interests.

If we're really serious about eliminating "spam," let's eliminate ALL of it at once - in EVERY medium - and begin preparing our children for the womb-to-tomb rubber room that will be the inevitable end result.

Much ado about nothing.; Posted by: IVLEEG Posted on: 02/10/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use