The Battle Against Junk Mail and Spyware 312
wildfrontiersman writes "A New York Times editorial by Brent Staples, The Battle Against Junk Mail and Spyware on the Web, laments 'The story of technology is the story of noble aspirations overtaken by a hard-core huckster reality. This process is on vivid display in the debate about electronic junk mail, which makes up more than half of all the e-mail that travels on the Internet.' He criticizes the new spam law, the lack of attention to spyware and how it threatens our beloved internet."
Age-Old Solutions (Score:5, Funny)
Both problems, the spammer and the salesman, can be solved with the use of a good 12-gauge shotgun.
Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.
Re:Boring. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:One way to solve it - stop buying (Score:5, Funny)
-Hey, nice pecker stretcher, and those pictures of the guy with the goat are really cool. Where'd you get 'em?
-I ordered them from a spam ad.
-You PIG!!!
rj
Re:I pity no one (Score:2, Funny)