--- black@csulb.edu wrote:---------------------- Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:18:36 PDT, Scott Weeks said:

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What I meant was: when only a few folks use email, the spammers will go away.

They won't go away, they'll just go infest whatever the people are using. : : MySpace and blog spamming can be cured instantly : if users required all public posts to be moderated : rather than automatically accepted.

I have to agree with Valdis. My post was incomplete, though the analogy still stands. When I said spammers will go away, I should've said the 'email spammers' will go away. Just like parasites on a dead animal body, the spammers won't go away. They'll just find another live body and kill it. ad infinitum. It's not a technology issue. It's not a political issue. It's a biological issue. Parasites kill until there's nothing left to kill. I wonder if spammers and cheats think of themselves that way? Rhetorical question...not a troll. scott