Spam, Pornography, Fertility and the American Way

Catholic Culture Highlights ^ | June 01, 2005 | Peter Mirus

[Salvation]

A diverse set of topics, but they are connected.

All feedback/comments welcomed.

[Salvation]

This was on a Catholic website, but I find it has a lot of politics and common sense in it so am posting it on the open forum.

[Salvation]

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[Paleo Conservative]

I wish the same prohibitions on unsoliceted mail applied to unsolicited email.

[Salvation]

It would be great, wouldn't it?

[Salvation]

**47% of people who attend church weekly say that their ideal family size is three or more children.

Only 27% of those who seldom attend Church want as many children.

Of the top 10 most fertile states, only one did not vote Republican (Bush) in the 2000 presidential election.

Of the 17 states that have children at population replacement levels, only two did not vote for Bush.

The least fertile states voted overwhelmingly for Al Gore.**

Fivie interesting facts, there!

[Nachoman]

>> these laws have done NOTHING. I get more spam than ever before.

Another useless gov't program. What a shocker.

[SteveMcKing]

Your children will most likely follow in your shoes.

I see just the opposite, particularly observing massachusetts catholics. Conservative parents, wild kids ("kids" as in 20 or 30-something). Likewise my own parents were pseudo-flower children, and I was the rebellious conservative child.

[Northern Alliance]

I'm gonna use this to put in a plug for a spam filter for Outlook, - http://www.outlook-spam-filter.com/. I've looked at quite a few of these, both gateway and workstation based, and like this one the best. As it is an add-in for Outlook it will work on a home computer as well as MS Exchange or other email server based workstations.

After about a one month 'learning period', spam that passes it is down to a few a week from almost 1,000/week.

[martin_fierro]

I started getting a ton of spoofed SPAM today where the sender was supposedly someone at my own web domain. Pain in the butt.

[SteveMcKing]

It's so rare that strangers email my personal account that I finally resorted to a safe-list filter. So if I don't know you- then you can't write to me. (Sorry!)

[Robert_Paulson2]

Got an email address? Check. Had it for longer than one month? Double check. Got spam? Uh, 100 checks.

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idiots.
yes, yes and NO spam.

don't give your email address out to flaky religious email lists and you won't get any spam.

they sell them and share them with those who DO sell them... and you WILL get porn... eventually.

ridiculous.

[DB]

The problem comes about when your friends have your Email address and send a joke or something else to you and everyone else in their address book. And those people forward it to other people... Then suddenly your Email address is all over the place... It is pretty much unavoidable.

[backhoe]

Crosslinked to my general-purpose browser, malware, OS, and PC post:

...and just FYI, FWIW-- I hate spam and its propagators more than virus writers. Hang 'em high.

Browser Wars, take two

[Robert_Paulson2]

don't give the joke of the week idiots (mostly AOL or former AOL morons) your new email. Period.

no joke lists.
no email lists of primarily family members.
no exceptions.

I have dozens of people on my 'okay' to recieve from list.
I am on dozens of theirs as well.
anybody NOT on the list gets bounced in multiple with a nasty message and a copy to the orignating isp. They also get blacklisted as spammers... via a report to the spam listing organizations.

end of story.

I have done it for years.
I don't have sex with those to whom I am not married... and I don't have email 'congress' with those who are not in agreement with me on their email policies...

And I very seldom receive any spam.

[murphE]

I never get spam. =D

[trisham]

Today, legislation isn’t the answer. But it turns out that you can fight pornographic SPAM, and other social ills, simply by being a faithful, fertile Catholic.

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I had to laugh when I read the above. :)

[Antoninus]

Interesting.

47% of people who attend church weekly say that their ideal family size is three or more children.

That's true of my family. We've got three already and are hoping for more, God willing...

[Antoninus]

I started getting a ton of spoofed SPAM today where the sender was supposedly someone at my own web domain. Pain in the butt.

We started getting that too. I noticed that most of the spoofed stuff was coming back to a sham email address at out domain (like "shekobmei@domain.com"). To eliminate it, we simply blocked any emails coming to our domain except those addressed to a specific, accepted list of email addresses. Cut the spam by about 99%.

[Antoninus]

I see just the opposite, particularly observing massachusetts catholics.

Sadly, simply living in a state like Massachusetts can be a near occasion of sin for children. The same is true here where I live in NJ, unfortunately. We're going to try to defeat it with a combination of our local traditional Catholic parish, strong family connections, homeschooling, and minimal intrusions by the culture via TV and other media. I've seen that strategy work for a lot of other families around here.