No Spam Laws Please (Score 1)

Someone always has to post a comment to the effect that "spam would go away if you just make it illegal...blah, blah, blah...." hmmm...lets examine that shall we? Every internet connected country would have to outlaw spam in theory for this pipe dream to work. Then, you would have to have a super secret international spam police. Then magically overnight everyone would be so scared to send spam that it would just stop.... ha thats laughable. The U.S. outlawed various narcotics and that sure as heck stopped all the drug sellers and users didnt it. Come-on The knee jerk reactions American's make to any unpopular subject is always government regulation. Instead of taking actions on ones own we are always inclined to be babysitted, until that imposes on our freedoms, then all of a sudden we want government out of the picture. Take a few simple steps on your own and reduce if not eliminate your spam consumption. A) DONT sign up for lists that you know are junk! If you do, sign up with a throw-away account. B) use an email address that isnt easy for spammers to find using dictionary attacks like "[e-mail]". Creating an address 11 characters or longer without common words will help reduce the number of spam collectors finding your address. C)Don't post your address where it can be easily collected by mail harvesters. D)Don't use yahoo, MSN, and the like for email and then complain that you get spam. They are FREE accounts. How do you think they make money to keep offering those accounts? Why do you think they offer free accounts? To sell your email address to spammers!!!!!! E) Support programmers and companies who offer defenitive EULAs against selling your address and or provide or offer methods to block spam effectively. F) Consider using software that sends an autoresponder to anyone trying to send you email that you have not recieved from before which requires them to authenticate themselves before thier mail can reach your box. Put the work on spammers and not on your sys admin or yourself