Comments on: Why We All Get Spam http://blatti.net/2006/12/07/why-we-all-get-spam/ Yesterday's Technology Today Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:33:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: blatti http://blatti.net/2006/12/07/why-we-all-get-spam/#comment-4801 blatti Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:31:12 +0000 http://blatti.net/index.php/2006/12/07/why-we-all-get-spam/#comment-4801 I have the solution. Usually when you sign up for a new email address, you agree to some type of terms of service. Buried within those terms will be a checkbox followed by the statement: "I don't want any spam". Each day, a list will be published containing the email addresses of everyone who didn't check the box when they signed up. Spammers can download this list for free and spam away. They are going to have much better luck with those people anyway. Plus we can all chuckle when people complain about how much spam they are getting. I have the solution. Usually when you sign up for a new email address, you agree to some type of terms of service. Buried within those terms will be a checkbox followed by the statement: “I don’t want any spam”.

Each day, a list will be published containing the email addresses of everyone who didn’t check the box when they signed up. Spammers can download this list for free and spam away. They are going to have much better luck with those people anyway. Plus we can all chuckle when people complain about how much spam they are getting.

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