Maybe I’m a Heretic.

I’m not really in favor of spam and I don’t like it anymore than the rest of you and I’m sure many of you will disagree with me.

However I look at it in the same way I look at TV commercials. If we didn’t have them we’d have television like they have in Europe, which is pretty sad.

I just don’t want the government to get into the act. Let the market place take care of it. Eventually it will sort itself out. For one thing it doesn’t work. There are ways to control it with software and by other means.

I had an email address that for some reason or other was prone to receiving massive amounts of exceedingly offensive porn. I just abandoned it.

Spam is relatively inexpensive or it wouldn’t exist. Do you want to charge for the internet to cure it? I don’t think so. But when you get to the bottom of it there is a cost to those who employ it and I think eventually they’ll come to realize it and stop it.

I just received an email message from someone who wrote a blog objecting to Spam. In it he was touting some software to eliminate spam. Not only was he employing spam, but it was one of those long sales pitches that you have to scroll for five minuites to find out that this software marvel cost $200.00. I not only deleted it, I unsubscribed. Wasn't this Spam.

Here's one for the books. I received a solicitation to join a program that was supposed to let you use spam but not have it considered spam. You joined a group who ageed to receive email from you as long as you gave them permission to reciprocate.

It's a free program and they were honest enough to tell you up front that you could concievably receive 10,000 email messages at a time. I'll take my spam any day.

Meanwhile the best thing to do is make sure you have a good filter and ignore it.

Don’t answer it or respond to it in any way. I used to report it but stopped even acknowledging that I ever saw it.

Do not buy from anyone who indulges in spam.

Hit them in the pocket book and eventually they’ll go away.

Don’t ask “Big Brother “ to help because you’ll then suffer from unintended consequences. Use your freedom BOYCOTT them.

Written by: George W. Cannata Author and publisher of the web site: http://www.caveatemptorus.com You may copy or reprint this article so long as it is not altered in any way, that you retain the link and give full credit to the author.

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