My server was totally screwed up a little while ago, and I was impatient, so I went to look at my email on the server. 307 messages were in my mailbox since last night. Took a quick look, and the first 25 were all spam. So I decided I didn’t want to play find-the-real-email, and logged out, and waited until the server worked normally (this is a regular problem here, and I am strongly considering a new hosting service as a result). Now there are 64 email messages.
14 of them were not spam.
If my math isn’t wrong, that means 95% of my email is spam.
And why is it, again, that we shouldn’t send spammers to jail?
I have totally changed my mind about that.
Ninety-five percent of my email is spam. Ninety-five percent. Ninety-effing-five percent.
Lock ’em up and throw away the key.
A better solution is high, bankruptcy-inducing fines that would remove any economic incentive for spamming. Catch, say, 15% of spammers, the rest would be too scared to spam anymore. Plus, instead of merely jailing – which costs taxpayers money, huge fines would strip them of all of their assets. And then, if the fine outstrips that, even jailtime – but they would be funding it.
Kill two birds with one stone.
er… does that mean I should re-submit the 2 emails I sent to you on the 23rd and 24th?