Brought to you today by the letter "S"
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Smoke-In last week's Charlotte Rhino Times, a non-smoker called The Beep twice, lamenting that there were no smokelesss places outside in Uptown Charlotte to eat. My reply was printed this week and should be available on The Rhino web site tomorrow. I didn't realize I had such a pun at the end of my call until I read it in The Rhino last Friday. LOL.
Spam-Last week I actually caught Neal Boortz's broadcast on WBT just before going to bed. Boortz was talking about e-mail "spam". He thinks the solution to cut down on spam would be for the Internet Service companies to charge everyone a few cents each time they send an e-mail. E-mail charges would just be credited to our IP account (or whoever provides us with e-mail, a domain, etc) every month. I am not sure if he thought that spammers should be treated differently or what. He did not go into that much detail.
I think any charges for an advertisement that is e-mailed should not be credited back, however this would require a lot of expense for the Internet Providers and may not be feasible unless the IPs target known spammers and do not allow them a credit (But then we don't want a situation where IPs actually profit from spam sent, do we? Then again, since Yahoo! and MSN keep changing their marketing and privacy terms I am not so sure they aren't profiting right now).
This might work, but remember, advertisers still send loads of junk mail even though they are charged. However, this idea would indeed cut down on the profitability of spam. I just deleted a bunch of spam today from my inbox (darn Yahoo! won't give me a filter even though I pay them for my domain and web hosting for my art site) and boy was it annoying. Lots of spam with files. Delete, delete, delete.
Perhaps they should charge spammers one cent every time they use the letter S. But alas, there is always a solution around laws and rules that some people eventually get around. My apologies to the Hormel Corporation for the abuse of the word spam. Well no, I take that back. Actually I hate both! ~Jennifer
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