OT - Federal "No Call List" ???

[Annie Grieshop]

HTML MessageRemember lap cards, the postage-paid postcards publishers put in
the magazines, hoping to get you to subscribe?  Back in the '60s, Abbie
Hoffman suggested gluing them to concrete blocks and mailing them back to
the publishing companies, assuming they'd have to pay the postage on the
whole shebang.  If only there were something like that for spammers....

Actually, magazines still include lap cards, but now they seem to be bound
into the magazine.  My guess is that as automation increased at the Post
Office (after it was privatized), the Powers That Be informed the publishers
that those cards had to stop falling out of the magazines and fouling the
machinery.

Spammers won't be stopped until they start affecting the profit margins of
large corporations in a significant manner.  The guv'mint can't do it (it's
a global phenomenon), much as they love to declaim against it.  And
individuals can't stop 'em.  When it hurts Wal-Mart or Microsoft, a solution
will be found. <g>

Annie
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Alan R. Barnard [mailto:tune4u at earthlink.net]
  Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:42 PM
  To: annie at allthingspiano.com; pianotech at ptg.org
  Subject: RE: OT - Federal "No Call List" ???


  What I really want is a button on my computer that, when depressed (or
when I'm depressed), immediately sends a command signal to the computer of
whomsoever I decide is a low-life spammer, the receiving computer then
delivers about a 50 Gigglevolt shot directly to the testicles (or equivalent
tender parts) of said slime-ball, resulting in serious death, or worse, and
then he'd get a popup message giving him a very stern talking to and a
fabulous opportunity to invest in a Nigerian Viagra mine!


  Maybe, just maybe I shouldn't be trusted with all that power.



  Say, we could require the federal courts and a congressional oversight
committee to approve each zapping. This would reduce the violence, but also
the effectiveness of the program because nothing would get done until said
slimy creep spammer has already died of old age--as well as his great, great
grandchildren.


  The Unknown Cynic
  Salem, MO

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