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Does anyone really feel any sympathy for spammers? They can easily be grouped in with burglars or stalkers. What makes someone become a spammer? Were they spammed when they were a child? Were their parents junk mailers?
Althoughspam is less wasteful thanjunk mail, it all cumulatively adds up to a lot of waste. It takes a painful amount of extra time to filter through all that internet dark matter to get to what really matters. It sometimes even leads to frozen screens and restarts, which also uses extra power. Word verification has become so cryptic that not even humans can decipher some of them, keeping us plugged in longer than we need to be.
If there was a button on your screen you could push that blows up the computer of a spammer, would you push it?
Since that technology isn't available yet, there are a few things you can do to lessen spam:
- Leave your email address off of publicly viewable web pages. Use a hyperlink instead. Spamming programs can sort through billions of web pages to find their victims.
- Create email aliases that forward to your main email address. You can change them out when the spammers find it.
- Use a secondary email address when shopping online, filling out required forms, etc. Dedicate it to spam susceptible internet interaction.
How many ways are there to spell Viagra anyway?
This post was inspired by Wa$ted
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