Re: More on spam

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 12:36 GMT, Tom penned:
> 
> What does this have to do with spam?  It bemuses and befuddles me to
> observe extremely intelligent people to swatting the air with tools
> like spamassassin, when the correct solution lies elsewhere.  The
> correct solution is to merely enlighten all of humanity not to send
> spam.
> 
> Sounds stupid right?  Read the book to read why it's the *only*
> solution, and all technical solutions are doomed to failure...
> 

I respectfully disagree.  The correct solution is to merely enlighten
all of humanity not to *respond* to spam.

Now, even if that happened, it would still take a while for vendors to
realize that spam is no longer effective.  But it's the only way.  As
long as an endeavor is profitable, someone's going to do it, no matter
how distasteful/rude/illegal/immoral it might be.

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