Spam Spam Spam Spam
No, this is not a review of the Broadway phenom Spamalot! or an endorsement for a tasty meat product. Rather it is a plea to spammers to get their act together.
Firstly, you aren't fooling me. I don't know any of the people shown in the picture and the subject lines aren't even remotely intriguing. Honestly, how do spammers make any money at all?
Secondly, my ISP has to stop making it easy for spammers to get through to it's mail service. I use several services (for different reasons) and my Comcast account receives the highest volume of unexpected spam (9 pieces today so far, and that's below average, but the day isn't over yet). Users are given a filter to activate, but it does no good at all. Yahoo! Mail and Gmail filter very, very well. In fact, I haven't seem spam in the latter account in months.
Thirdly, I pay for e-mail. Even if it is a free service like Gmail, I still pay for Internet access. No one has the right to take up my time and my space without my permission. Send it to my snail-mail box if you have to send anything. I'm required by law to have one of those so I don't mind as much.
