get rid of AOL, will stop 99% ;-) At 04:49 PM 10/16/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poked the stick with:
>----- Original Message ----- From: "FORC5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 7:09 PM >Subject: Re: [H] Net slow today? > > >>must be that electronic gunk > >Other than pure spam, I can name one cause of wasted bandwidth on email. Clog >up enough bandwidth and the Internet has to slow down. There should be a way >to stop people from sending you unwanted email, period! Then it could be made >illegal to divert email in a way that the sender has no idea you do not wish >to receive their mail. Currently billions of emails go to delete or dead files >and the sender has no idea the recipient does not want to be on their mailing >list. Multiply this times billions of addresses over eternity as there is no >finite end to this problem. If you were to maintain an address for 50 years >and diverted unwanted mail, potentially the sender could waste bandwidth >sending you millions of emails during that 50 year period. Surely there should >be some method devised to put a stop to wasting of bandwidth in this manner. > >I am just venting frustration as I know we live in a wasteful society and >bandwidth is only a small portion of that waste. > >Chuck -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Out of the frying pan, into der fire. - The Swedish Chef.
