Re: And the sound of wailing was heard throughout the land...

SteveD <usenet@xxxxxxxx> writes:

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:53:54 -0500, Kevin Goebel
<kevin_at@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jack Rickard of BoardWatch magazine solved the spam problem in 1998, but
everyone was hooked on the "Internet should be free" mantra.

Jack's idea advocates a

( ) technical ( ) legislative (x) market-based ( ) vigilante

approach to fighting spam. Jack's idea will not work. Here is why it won't
work. (One or more of the following may apply to Jack's particular idea,
and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before
a bad federal law was passed.)

Oh crap. Well, you can compare how two different Steves answered the
questions now.

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