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The High Co$t of SPAM!
Are you tired of the recent barrage of it? I am!!!

It is 7:09 am. I turn on my PC, then struggle to the kitchen to brew some gogo juice. On my return I find 89 messages in my inbox. Most of it is crap!

I've been online since AOL opened it's doors. and I have never seen so much spam. I bet I'm not alone.

Now I'm definitely not into regulation and know that as Americans, we live in the land of the regulated, hardly the home of the free, as the Euros are so fast to accuse. But something's gotta give here.

Ads for Viagra, Penis enlargement and growth hormones bombard my inbox (and that doesn't include the offensive stuff) - it takes a lot to offend me.

There's nothing like having your Outlook auto send/receive with your boss standing over you in horror, as porn princesses waving flailing dildos try to entice me to their site. Yessir, I'm not a pervert. Right... It's the internet.

What bugs me is this. SPAM costs US, not the good folks who deal in it. I have to spend time figuring out what is mail and what is shit. Have you deleted an important email and then gotten chewed out coz you didn't reply? Maybe it only happens to me.

What about faxes? Have you ever gotten unsolicited ads through your fax machine? Well it's not legal, and there's a simple process to make them stop. Fines and the ease of filing a complaint have helped slam the door on those time-share peddlers. You can make a complaint by going to the pertinent government site. They seem to go after them.

They do this because with faxes, it costs the receiver, not the advertiser to produce the ad. The point I'm trying to make is that with SPAM, the cost of it is on our shoulders, not the sender. So as I sat down and did some ciphering,I figure I spend 15 minutes a day sorting out the ca-ca.

If you count everyone else here in the Orlando office (where I work), then that adds up to 100 hours (give or take) of wasted time every single day. No wonder the I.T.-nazis restrict my access.

One way to save us is to ask the government to step in and let us all sue spammers or maybe we can sue our ISPs, the guys who could stop it all if they really wanted to. But guess what? They're cashing in on it all too.

OK, so now lets get to the real solution. and this can be REAL easy if I can just get all the bozos out there to figure it out. STOP BUYING CRAP FROM SPAMMERS.

Do you really think your Johnson is gonna require Trojan Magnums because you're chomping some damn pill sold off the net? (yeah, they don't really work). Is it really that easy to stop being ugly, or lose 100 lbs? C'mon, wise up already.

Man, are we gullible or what? Only when we kill the demand, the response can we stop this wave of push ads.

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