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Originally Posted by combatmedic
'Spammer' is a curse-word for the ages.
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Maybe. It seems to me that spamming is only possible in systems which enables anybody to "send" to anybody else. That's the case with the kind of email we have, but it doesn't seem to me that all electronic communciations systems necessarily have to have that "feature". On Facebook, for instance, mails from strangers are placed in an obscure folder that most people never look in, and often don't even know exist.
Much of the problem behnid spam is also that you can't be sure of the identity of the sender. It's possible to fake the sender's identity. I'm not sure that's a given either, but rather a feature of the design of our current email system. Other worlds, and far future worlds, may use a differently designed email'ish system where you can't do that.