A few years back my ISP began filtering spam and my email load dropped. I was a bit irate because part of my interest in the cyberworld was its development as a tool of both individual activists and collective manipulators (government and business). Spam was, to me at the time, the seedlings of what the Internet/email/WWW/listservs/bulletin boards/newsgroups would become. I negotiated a work-around with my ISP so my mail would be unfiltered.
Now that the Internet has evolved into an analog of the incessant chatter of Citizens Band radio (with the difference that political, religious and business opinions ARE allowed) spam for me has lost its value as an indicator phenomenon and is now the annoying detritus of a cyberworld version of what we already had -- in your face sales pitches from which there is no ducking.
My friend is the delete key.
Dan Scanlan
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On Dec 13, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Devine, James wrote:
Awhile back, Michael Perelman asked why people are up in arms against e-mail spam.
