Brad

People amaze me. So what, these guys were spamming. Is that such a big deal? Like I always say in these threads, I'd much rather them focus on the spam the ends up in my real mailbox at my house. On a computer we have software and a delete button to deal with it, in real life (you know the life that exists beyond the interweb) you have to throw the spam out and it fills our landfills for our future generations to deal with.

Someone said it earlier in another thread...we are all here (with the exception of some surfers here) to make money online. It makes me laugh that there is such a double standard. People will probably say: "well it's against the law here, spam laws..." and whatever bullshit rhetoric they can think of. But the bottom line is that we all are trying to make money. I personally don't spam and I don't really like receiving it anymore than any of you, but guess what...I hate those banners with sound and those ads that pop up over yahoo and other sites these days. I hate pop ups and pop unders and I hate the ads at the beginning of online videos and a bunch of other techniques that everyone here employs to make money.

These guys were just trying to make money just like us. Spam is not going anywhere just like file sharing it is going to be a thorn in our sides that we need to adapt to and learn to work around. Besides, most of the spam is not originating from North America anyways.

Oh and the sentencing is ridiculous for such a small offence considering the real players in this world can steal money from investors (Conrad Black) or send people off to die for oil (Bush Jr and Sr.) and get either a slap on the wrist or a pat on the back.

Anyways, that's enough for now. Let's stop the mail spam though...if we wanted to know what deals are going on at Best Buy or the grocery store we would go on the internet to find out anyways!

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