Off Topic Question/Spam rant

[Brian Young]

I always understood that the USPS was mostly supported
by Junk mail as well. We through 85% of the stuff in
our snailmail box away as well.....


--- Anthony Abdullah <aabdu at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I use Kazaa as well and used to love it until I
> downloaded the new version. They have gone comercial
> BIG TIME. The original version was clean and
> efficient, I could search the way I wanted and it
> had very limited advertisements. Now It is hard to
> even locate a file as I am swamped with pop ups and
> advertisements. I swear there are people whose full
> time job is to make sure that I am constantly
> bombarded with ads for junk I would never buy, or
> services I don't need. They are like digital
> terminators, they just keep coming one after
> another. They have no conscience, they never get
> tired, and they never sleep. They can't be reasoned
> with or bargained with, they just want me to
> refinance my home or buy male enhancement tonic, and
> they ain't takin no for an answer. Does anyone out
> there know if I can delete the new version v2.5 I
> think, and go back to the old version.
>  
> I had a great spybot program that eliminated 90% of
> all pop ups and unwanted advertisement. When I
> downloaded v2.5 it wouldn't work with my spybot
> program enabled so I had to delete it. Now it is
> open season on my computer, and with my DSL I just
> get the pop ups faster. If it wasn't for this list,
> map quest, and Ebay I would unplug my modem shut
> down my computer and walk away from the internet
> forever. I recently saw a graphic on how much email
> traffic was Spam and unsolicited garbage and it was
> on the magnitude of around 85%. The ironic thing is
> I saw that graphic in an unsolicited email for pop
> up blocker software that would prevent my Kazaa from
> working. I had to laugh to keep from crying.
>  
> Anthony 
> 
> David Harmon <K6XYZ at comcast.net> wrote:
> I use Kazaa
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dave Harmon
> NSRCA 586
> K6XYZ at comcast.net
> Torrance, Ca.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discussion-request at nsrca.org
> [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]
> On Behalf Of Bob Pastorello
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 5:02 PM
> To: NSRCA
> Subject: Off Topic Question
> 
> If anyone has information about Napster 2.0, the new
> one...please
> contact me
> off list for a couple questions. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Bob Pastorello, Oklahoma
> NSRCA 199, AMA 46373
> rcaerobob at cox.net
> www.rcaerobats.net
> 
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