[Clive]

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[caver]

Spammers should be taken out. They are some of the lowest forms of life.

[Drango]

What should be done? In Canada, we need to finally follow the lead of U.S. legislators...

It has worked so well here.../s

[rogernz]

get gmail...
i get almost 0% spam in my inbox.

[GOPJ]

According to the FBI, when a target angrily responds to the e-mail, the spammers know they have located a live account. They then respond with some unique information that serves to identify the recipient -- a child's name, a street lived on -- and the target perhaps becomes frightened. The extortion scheme then starts to yield dividends.

Thanks - great post.

[Robert A Cook PE]

At least the writer recognizes the problem ...

Now, if only we could get rid of the daily MSM spam. Er, spin. Rather, news broadcasts.

[Dumpster Baby]

Play Monty Python's SPAM game!

[Right Wing Assault]

My spam box gets about 50 a day. Based on the names the stuff is coming from and the subject lines, I can’t believe anyone would open ANY of this stuff. Must be total morons.

Rodneyta Yebovi Re:

Abdul Shaver — To kellerton at clayto...

Yvette Norton — With everhart here mescal

Florene — online meds

Liam Murphy — Need S0ftware?

Lashay Guillermina — Fast weight loss, Boo...

HUH? WTF are they talking about?

[PA Engineer]

Canada needs to do something. The entire junk stock manipulation emails seem to originate at a couple of apartment buildings in Vancouver.

[reagan_fanatic]

According to the FBI, when a target angrily responds to the e-mail, the spammers know they have located a live account. They then respond with some unique information that serves to identify the recipient -- a child's name, a street lived on --

How would they find out personal information like that?

[wolfcreek]

I recently started a business e-mail account. At first there were the usual ‘keyword’ hits, using the words in the the account name. After a couple of months, I was flooded with *this woman wants to FU*, *pay for escorts* or *Lonely tonight?* e-mails.

I use Earthlink and they keep all of these e-mails in an offsite storage area. I can view them but, they never reach my e-mail account unless I want them to.

[djf]

You actually open email from unknown people/accounts?

If I snail mailed you a box with no return address on it, and it smelled funny and was making a mysterious ticking sound, would you open it?

Just wunderin...

[mkjessup]

Make the sending of a death threat via the Internet a capital offense, and those scary emails will disappear.

Of course Canada would have to rethink their view of the death penalty.

There is nothing inherently wrong with people getting killed, as long as the RIGHT people are getting killed.

[two23]

I never give out my main ISP email address and when I shop online, I use internet based email, so all the spam goes there and not to my main address. I have been doing this for years now.
Main ISP email: Zero spam, Yahoo email: A Cyber-Landfill of Spam.

[dighton]

“Some one that I will not like to tell you the name came to me and told me that he want you and the whole of your family dead and he provide us with your name, Address and Phone Number and with my network I sent my boys to track you down and they have done that.”

The Godfather as remade by Ed Wood, with Tor Johnson as Don Fanucci.

[Lancey Howard]

Interesting.
I check my email once or twice a week and there’s rarely any unwanted spam email. I guess this computer must have a spam filtering.... thingie, whatever.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Spam filters block a large percentage of legitimate mail. Obviously the system does not work.
The solution must start with payment of a small fee to send email. Perhaps 10 emails for 1 cent. The ability to trace each email to a credit card or checking account would stop most of the junk.

Also, there must be elimination of the email client programs which allow the sender to use anything at all as the sender address.