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Not A Speck of Cereal. (chrisshe@microsoft.com) wrote:
> What happens when the number of spam emails out-number that
> of non-spam? 

At some point today I logged into the machine where I read my mail to find
ten new messages. Of the ten, six were spammed UCEs, two were
auto-responses from postmasters about my complaints regarding other spams
(which is beginning to be an irritant in itself), and only two were of any
use to me. 

Hitting `d,' for those fools out there who think it to be a solution, is
begging for the day when I log in to find _sixty_ spammed UCEs hiding the
two legitimate mails. While it's tempting, I'm still sitting there and
bouncing stuff off to postmasters, and everyone else of relevance that I
can find in whois. It feels like a terrible waste of time sometimes, but
it's certainly more effective than ignoring the problem. If you're dumb
enough (this is not addressed to the person whose post I'm following up
to) to find UCE not a problem, at least keep your ignorant comments to
yourself instead of encouraging everyone else to `just delete' the stuff. 

It is _not_ comparable to postal junk mail, which doesn't cost me a penny
to receive, is always easy to distinguish from letters from friends and
places I actually do business with, doesn't threaten to make the postal
service unusable if I ignore it, and offers plenty of legal recourse
should it be fradulent. And if I decide I no longer want to find out
what's on sale at the local supermarket, my postman will abide by a `No
Junk Mail' sticker on my mailbox. Contrary to popular belief, spammers do
*not* adhere to their `contact us to be removed' line. 

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