Guess 'WHO' Can Stop Sp^am!

These days there are plenty of articles on troubling issue of sp^am...plenty of articles and plenty of feedback to these articles.

From all this tortured outpouring general consensus seems to be that most networkers - who accept this necessary evil as an unavoidable consequence of being online - most feel answer to problem lies in 'delete' key.

But while 'delete' key and 'sp^am filters' which seem to have created more problems than they have solved) are effective means to fight sp^am, these methods do not inform sp^ammer his mail is being deleted and so he/she goes about their merry task happily unaware of any reductions in their 'response rate'.

What if we could add a slight modification to 'deleting and filtering'...

There is every possibility that a sp^ammer may be reaching you with a product you require. What if - in these cases - you visit website MINUS affiliate code, make your purchase and if sp^ammer's email had a contact address, thank him/her for sending you info while also informing them how they have missed their affiliate earnings because they sp^ammed you instead of coming in like genuine and responsible networkers.

This of course will not stop all sp^am because sp^am containing affiliate links is just one small section of huge sp^am 'market' but as word spreads it could deal a 'death-blow' to this section atleast.

I mean, sure, I am tired of getting all emails telling me how I can enlarge body parts I do not even possess and inviting me to look at naked teenage girls. But this is a small price to pay for my freedom - my delete button works just fine, thank you. Oh yeah, and I am wondering, has rest of civilized world heard of filtering your email as it arrives to your inbox? I do not need help of my Internet Service Provider for this - my IQ indicates that I am above average in intelligence.

And if you decide not to comply (buy into this "protection") with Habeas, then you will surely be crippled. Sure sounds a lot like Mafia to me. What do I mean by all this? Just stay with me here as I briefly go through paces.

Habeas (a private corporation, mind you) has proposed that we all pay for a header in all our outgoing emails that identifies email as legitimate (i.e. not sp*m). And for this "privilege", we will be required to pay.

Small businesses, those who make less than $100,000 a year, will pay a fee of $200 a year for privilege of sending email to people who have legitimately requested it. Outrageous! But that is only tip of iceberg.

Those business owners that make over $100,000 a year will be required to pay ½ cent to 1 cent per email sent, up to a maximum of $3,000 a month. Who died and made these people God?! And I thought government was giving it to me in way of taxes every year... Now you tell me that I have to be robbed by common citizen, too?

"So what," you say, "I do not even do business by email..." Well, let me explain to you how this will affect you, ordinary citizen. Right now, header is free for ordinary citizens to use in their emails. But they ALSO originally said that only rich would pay taxes, didn't they?