Should Spam be illegal?

[Belloni]

So far i don't think i have had any "Spam" lol

Can't rememeber getting any.

I am VERY careful when it comes to given my personaly details to a site or something

So maybe that's it :S

 

[erebon]

Own my very first adress I got tons of spam. Up until two years ago when I still used it I received arround 40-50 spam messages a day after blocking some 100 adresses AND turnung Hotmails spam-filter on, which where a pain to delete, especially on my dial-up. It cost me lots of valuable time and internet-time and phone-pulses and this is why it should be illegal. I finally deleted that account. Now only one of my accounts which I use for registering to sites I don't know very well.

I must say from the time the first spam-filters were introduced they have improved a lot. They delete not so many real mail and get most of the junk.

Spam MUST be illegal!

 

[betty02]

i hate it especially when you make a new forum that gets spammed

 

[Ninjanak]

Have you seen how much spam is costing the U.S.? Spam cost roughly 3 billion dollars a year for something completely worthless and dumb. Not only does spam lag computers in instant messengers it makes it harder to find e-mail you actually want to read! You could easily lose an important e-mail or job offer even in the tons of spam messages we recieve and if something that damages the U.S. economy however so slightly and is pointless it should be banned! As for advertising a product? There are better ways to say we care about you and thats why we tried our best on this product,
then emailing someone 50 times. Conclusion? Spam should be illegal and I DONT see why not.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Holy thread wake-up Batman!

Spam

 

[Anon_F]

A 4 year old thread bought back to life.
Why?

 

[crazylegs]

Why not!


The subject is still relevant, just that we have spam filters now that are far better at filtering out the junk than it was 4 years ago..Still get the occasional spam email though that manages to get through..

 

[Madxgraphics]

Why not!


The subject is still relevant, just that we have spam filters now that are far better at filtering out the junk than it was 4 years ago..Still get the occasional spam
email though that manages to get through..

 

[Anon_F]

I dont like spam, but then being veggie i would not eat it anyway.

 

[Abarbarian]

The only way to deal with Spam.

 

[Madxgraphics]

The only way to deal with Spam.

LOL you're on one with the pictures today for sure...

 

[crazylegs]

Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam...I do like a spam sarnie with Branston rich and fruity brown sauce, washed down with a nice cup of coffee..

I'm an Animal me...

 

[dt3k]

so something should be illegal because it wastes your time?

I would say that anyone has the right to advertise their product. If your contact information becomes public knowledge somehow, then I don't think you can fault them for using it. I think you can conceivably make illegal a lot of the ways in which they obtain contact info, because a lot of these methods are a violation of privacy rights. But I don't think spam itself can be called illegal. just annoying.

Most of the SPAM is either drug or porn related...no they don't have a right to advertise their product using unsolicited emails that jam up my inbox.

 

[numenius]

I hate spam, but if it's made illegal that would be *yet another* limiting on our free speech. For example, part of the EU definition of terrorism is any written criticism against it! Outrageous as that may be, what I actually mean by that example is one mans spam may be another mans freedom of speech. My trend micro spam filter means compared to what I used to get, I get very, very little spam now - maybe 1 item every 2 or 3 days, and even then, it's moved to my spam inbox without me ever seeing it unless I check in there for false positives which I do now and then - of which I've only had a couple, and once you tell the system with one click that they are not spam, they get through to your normal in boxafter that. So it's nothing like the issue it was for me (overnight I'd gone from 10-20 items to 90+ a day and over 100 some days - obviously someone had put me on a list! It brought my email to a halt basically). So even though I hate it, I don't think it should be illegal - except for obsecene/porn spam as there is no control over who will see that, and by deliberately using pictures etc to avoid filters, they are almost ensuring children will see it - and thats plain wrong.

 

[floppybootstomp]

I hate spam, but if it's made illegal that would be *yet another* limiting on our free speech.

Now that is plain wrong.

Free speech does not equate to unsolicited constant annoyance.

We're talking individual's basic rights here, not free speech.

Free speech is a handle that forgives a multitude of sins.

I disagree with you strongly.

So your Trend software appears to be doing something right does it?

Well, I guess there's always an exception to the rule

Welcome to the forum, btw.

 

[numenius]

- Thats my point really, I agree with you about spam, it brought my business mail to a halt after all, so I can hardly be pro spam! - but what I'm saying is that illegality, which means government involvement on deciding what you can and cannot hear or read , can be a very slippery slope and can be severely misused as in my example. So such things need to be done with great care. I'd rather ISPs took a greater role (they can if they really wanted to - all they'd have to do is look at reports from thier customers and block the offending mail box just like that. I know there are 1000's, but if they were all doing it, I'm sure it would begin to have an effect in time. I think they don't because for some there is money to be made selling their own spam filter service as an add-on (like Tiscali for one) instead of just applying it themselves to incoming as a service (I used it and it wasn't particularly good mind, but that was some years ago).

 

[floppybootstomp]

numenius: I sympathise with you to a point and understand where you're coming from but such is my dislike of spam my view is 'Whatever it takes' and if it takes Goverment spooks rubbing their hands with glee at being able to excercise just a little more control over the great unwashed, then so be it

Rarely do I take pleasure in advocating extremes and I'm definitely not a gung-ho gun happy redneck but I'd willingly line spammers up against a wall and give them a little extra ventilation with an assortment of hand held automatic weapons

 

[nimd4]

in addition,

to?..

[..] I can't unsubscribe from these e-mails.

Anyway,

I would say that anyone has the right to advertise their product. If your contact information becomes public knowledge somehow, then I don't think you can fault them for using it. I think you can conceivably make illegal a lot of the ways in which they obtain contact info, because a lot of these methods are a violation of privacy rights. But I don't think spam itself can be called illegal. just annoying.

• Anyone CAN advertize their product and also by law this advertisement CAN contain false information. THIS is the actual problem we are having in this modern day.
• I'm not sure that obtaining personal information published online could be made illegal. This is much like having your picture taken on the street, right?!

P.S.
If false advertizing went away, as it had been illegal some decades ago, then spam would mostly go away. We would know what's good and what to buy & what 2 get, right?!??

P.P.S.

'Whatever it takes'

Absolutely not, it is crucial for us that Internet (like someone previously posted here), the web, must remain unregulated.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Absolutely not, it is crucial for us that Internet (like someone previously posted here), the web, must remain unregulated.

And so say you.

I agree, but there's a big difference between freedom and being bombarded with ten tons of crap on a daily basis and mostly for products from iffy eastern geezers that the greater majority of us have no interest in anyway.

Counterfeit/Rolex/Sunglasses/Sports goods sir?

Viagra?

Penis enlargement?

Fillipino/Russian wife?

Your long lost uncle has £15K languishing in a bank account in Lagos? Oh wow, goody.

Nope, as far as I'm concerned spam should be illegal.

And the web unregulated - the two do not equate if you apply the extra ingredient - common sense.

Care to run a worldwide census on this subject?

You know, only spammers - low life scum only one step lower than a submarine's karzi and born of a foul coupling between Hitler and Godzilla - would advocate people being constantly pestered with often insulting and distressing messages.

So I stand by my original POV and strongly suspect the majority of the world's population would agree with me.

 

[nimd4]

Lol, yessir. Just to clarify, like I should've done in the 1st place, I've never in my life sent an unsolicited email (not even to my ex & I want her dead ).

& ah, I gotta add, who's 2 decipher -then- what's to be filtered and what not? o.0

^^ The oldest question in the book..