Jimmy Wales wrote:
One good thing about spammers is that they are lazy and
only in it for
the money, as opposed to an ideological opponent or random lunatic who
might spend a completely absurd amount of time trying to get around
something.
Yes, it's important to take human nature into account. The Canadian
that was just charged under the US anti-spam law (US jurisdiction may
still be a separate issue) manged to send out 94,000,000 spams in
January alone. He hasn't go time for ideogical debates where winning
might only give him a few hundred more potential victims.
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