spam out of control?

[Alma J Wetzker]

Ted Ozolins wrote:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Ayup... My biggest beef with spam (yeah, pun, whatever) is that it
>> is a theft of service.
>>
>> Kurt
>>  
>>
> I received a phone call from my ISP asking me for my opinion on how to 
> improve the service I get from them. I replied "Start taking the 
> spammers to court for theft of service"  They didn't seem to hear what I 
> said so I repeated again, fell on what seemed to be deaf ears.  I then 
> informed the gent that when telus.net and fools want to be serious about 
> quality of service to give me  a call. I told him that I was getting a 
> little put off with their compromised service and their total lack of 
> caring for their clientel.
> At which point I hung up. You're right Kurt, it is a theft of service. 
> If I were to take a pickup full of garbage and dropped it into someones 
> garbage bin, I'd be charged asap. Why aren't the spammers? Dang I hate 
> those blood_suckers!
> 

I think David had the best idea, Start suing the merchants that use spam for 
advertising.  I suspect that the spammers are going to be too slippery to stop 
as long as there are folks willing to pay them to spam.

     -- Alma