by orz » Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:05 pm
Anyone in this day and age who is unfamilar with the concept of spam, clicks links in spam or replies to it, is unaware of nigerian spam emails, and/or believes them to be personal is shockingly internet-naiive and should probably proceed with caution and educate themselves asap. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rolleyes --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>As for the whole idea of spam being personal attacks/triggers etc, I'm afraid I can't really bring myself believe it... I mean it's certainly possible, but from my perspective there's just no way I can distinguish this idea from extreme paranoia. (which i guess is the beauty of it if it were true?)<br><br>Also as i've said before, what would be the point in including threats, triggers etc in emails that <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>any sensible person would delete without reading</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->!?!?!?!? Just doesn't seem practical to me.<br><br>As far as conspiricies about spam go, here's mine:<br><br>So little spam these days is even trying to sell anything,... certainly most are intended to collect active email adresses to sell to other spammers, and for 'phishing' for gullible morons' passwords, credit card details etc... but surely not many people actually fall for this stuff, and there's SO MUCH spam (ie this 95% of all email quoted in the article)<br><br>So...<br><br>I think the extreme volume of spam out there is promoted by the powers that be to hinder people's use of the internet for communication of truth, organisation of subversive activities etc. When 95% of your mail is total random gibberish, viruses etc, and probably a good chunk of the remaining 5% ends up getting accidentally deleted or spam filtered, it certainly makes it hard to communicate. I have actually noticed that people don't seem to be emailing that much these days... (or maybe they just don't reply to me! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :o --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/embarassed.gif ALT=":o"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> ) ... the prevailence of spam will drive people to more controllable, corporate owned means of communication (eg. sites like Myspace, now banned in US libraries) which can then be monitored, censored, restricted etc.<br><br>(I'm not sure i believe that theory but I'm quite pleased with it! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> ) <p></p><i></i>