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  Anonymous Coward, 15 Aug 2003 @ 2:46am

  
  

  The garbage cycle

  During most of the 20th century, there was a very serious problem with littering, in which people feared that by the year 2000, we would be buried under a sea of garbage. Indeed, near every town there once were mountains of untreated garbage, spawning vast clouds of seagulls, volcanoes of methane fireballs shooting out of the ground, and random outbreaks of cholera. Downtown pavements were once buried under flyers, paper cups, and banana peels, while forests once grew various species of rusty cars and refrigerators. People once burned trash in their back yard, while kids once carved their initials on trees the way they carve designs on their skin today.
  
  Today, after decades of anti-littering activism, we see very little of the above. I have a feeling our virtual world will undergo a similar transformation, away from the galaxies of spam and stale web links.
  

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  data64, 15 Aug 2003 @ 8:21am

  
  

  the only good thing

  The only good thing that came out of the power outage on the NA east coast was that east-coast spammers could not send out spam.

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  aNonMooseCowherd, 15 Aug 2003 @ 9:11am

  
  

  pity the poor scum

  This is like saying: Pity the poor dope dealers, just trying to eke out a living while constantly barraged with bad publicity, threatened by the authorities, harassed by neighbors, and so on. Their excuse is that they're not forcing anyone to buy the stuff, and if all the pressure doesn't ease, their kids are gonna end up in the poorhouse.

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    Mike (profile), 15 Aug 2003 @ 9:13am

    
    

    Re: pity the poor scum

    Uh. Yup. I guess the sarcasm in the original post wasn't clear? It was a joke... Spammers deserve no pity...

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  LittleW0lf, 15 Aug 2003 @ 10:02am

  
  

  Internet?

  "if you don't want to receive spam, don't connect to the internet."
  
  That's funny, because all along I thought that suffering denial of service attacks and having to switch servers regularly was part of being connected to the internet too.
  
  I think Mike and I can both attest to this one. I cannot count the number of times I've been "sold" off by one ISP to another, and Mike is proof that there are just some folks in the world unlucky enough that them joining a broadband provider is a death warrant for that provider.
  
  I hear the sound of a microscopic violin playing, and I am afraid it is small enough I might actually step on it. Oops, too late.

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