Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious

[Ned Fleming <ned () kaw us>]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:55:09 -0800, "Randy Abrams" <abrams () eset com>
wrote:

> Actually, if you live in the US you can opt out of most junk mail. Check with you post office. 

Ah, but there can be a benefit to receiving junk snail mail.

It's been years since I read this, but there was this fellow (in
Massachusetts? Maine? New Hampshire?) who deliberately had as much
junk mail sent to him as possible. 

The mail he actually wanted to read he had addressed to a PO box,
which he picked up every day.

So what did he do with the 10 bags of junk email he received every
day? He burned it. He used it to heat his house. The US postal service
was merely the delivery agent for his fuel.

Al Gore would have frowned, had he been on his high horse ten years
ago. I admired the man's ingenuity.

Ned


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