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Originally Posted by sarettah
You don't allow your kids to have an "unsupervised" mail address.
Just as you should review what snail mail your child receives, you should be supervising what email they receive.
The problem is not the "spammers". Even the most diehard spammer wants to send their shit to folks with credt cards. They don't want kids in their lists. If a kid is in an email list that usually means their email was either entered into a porn site, put out by them on a message board or some other such.
My children have never been allowed, on our compuers, to have a password protected user account and have been strongly advised against ever entering their real email address into a site. I scan through who is sending them emails on a regular basis.
Granted, that does not stop them from openng a yahoo account fom the library or the school. I have to trust them to a large extent to obey the rules.
And as a result they ecive very little spam in thei mailboxes and they receive zero porn spam in their mailboxes. I know because I have them set up on my mail server and can monitor it all. And I don't run any blockers.
I am quite tired of you puting all the blame on everything bad on the adult net on the spammers and by innuendo trying to rag on Nick.
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OK, here's the deal. Your kid is 13 to 15 years old. He hangs out at internet joints. He is curious. He sees a porn site. That is where it starts. Now a few years ago when Nick was spamming some pretty vile stuff, parents did not know how to protect their children. Many still don't.
So I do put a huge amount of blame on spammers for the damage they have done to the business and by association and admission, nick is proud to have been one of the biggest.
So, do you actually think that spam is good? Do you actually believe that that shit was good for our business and never hurt it?
I will always rag on vile porn spammers. I think it is evil shit. Could you please tell me one good thing that spam has done for our business? It is universally reviled including on this board. And when Nick had this joint, he bragged about what he had done and (nudge nudge, wink wink) had stopped doing.
I think bragging about making a fortune in spam or any other internet scam that ripped people off, sent porn to kids, or was really bad for fledgling internet commerce (porn and straight) is somewhat akin to bragging about making a fortune selling coke. It is not somthing to be proud of, for anyone to emulate, or to promote as a legitimate internet business model.
So you tell me what you think about spam and those who produce it.
Edit: oh yeah, and the amount of heat that spam brought down on us was immense. Even criminals hate those who attract heat. It gets them busted.