I doubt you'll find many people on here who believe that laws will have any impact on SPAM - as a matter of fact, both here and on the old-site-not-to-be-named, I heard nothing but derision when various anti-spam laws were proposed.
You're not likely to find many here who support spam - but the consensus will be finding technical solutions that make spam unpossible or easily filtered, not illegal. I have no need to stifle a spammer; but just because a spammer wants to send mail to me doesn't mean that I have to see it or even receive it.
Can we stop being childish and start referring to Slashdot normally, like to any other site out there? This makes us look like bunch of butthurt teenagers. Thank you.
I see where you're coming from, but you might as well ask Americans to stop referring to Britons as "Limies" or the French as "Frogs" or "Surrender Monkeys." Memes can, it seems, live forever. And flippancy is too ingrained in mankind. For the Internet user it is tantamount to a birthright.
(Score: 1) by KilroySmith on Monday December 15 2014, @04:22AM
I doubt you'll find many people on here who believe that laws will have any impact on SPAM - as a matter of fact, both here and on the old-site-not-to-be-named, I heard nothing but derision when various anti-spam laws were proposed.
You're not likely to find many here who support spam - but the consensus will be finding technical solutions that make spam unpossible or easily filtered, not illegal. I have no need to stifle a spammer; but just because a spammer wants to send mail to me doesn't mean that I have to see it or even receive it.
(Score: 2, Funny) by drgibbon on Monday December 15 2014, @12:30PM
Unpossible was a joke, right? ...
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by ticho on Monday December 15 2014, @01:52PM
Can we stop being childish and start referring to Slashdot normally, like to any other site out there? This makes us look like bunch of butthurt teenagers. Thank you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 15 2014, @02:03PM
Thanks for saying that. I've been waiting for that "joke" to die after the second month of being live.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday December 15 2014, @02:14PM
I see where you're coming from, but you might as well ask Americans to stop referring to Britons as "Limies" or the French as "Frogs" or "Surrender Monkeys." Memes can, it seems, live forever. And flippancy is too ingrained in mankind. For the Internet user it is tantamount to a birthright.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by ticho on Monday December 15 2014, @02:57PM
Yes, I know, momentum is a bitch. :-) Can't hurt to try, tough, right?
(Score: 1) by wantkitteh on Monday December 15 2014, @09:09PM
One does not simply stop all the memes!