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  How to Deal With Spammers - Comments

Posted by William, Kansas on May 17, 2008:

I fully expect someone to write a protest that the Spanish Police has put 310 people out of work!!

Posted by Chris, Melbourne (AU) on May 19, 2008:

William of Kansas - Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Some day, people will stop paying money to spammers (BTW - anti-phishing assistance like you find in Firefox is a Good Thing for the "average Joe" to use), and that'll make the sending of spam impractical. Hmm. That would invalidate the entire anti-spam industry...

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That's what I've been preaching for 12 years in my spam primer, but indeed enough people do buy from spammers to make it profitable. That tiny minority of people are directly responsible for the rest of us being bombarded. -rc

Read the article that everyone's commenting on, or post a comment about it.