Kudos to Microsoft for suing spammers.

You may have heard that Microsoft has just filed some serious lawsuits against some of the largest spam companies. Good for them. Even if they don't win, and I think they might since they're filing under Washington state's rather tough anti-spam laws, it should have a bit of a chilling effect

It's time people dealt with this problem. The costs of it are just enormous. God knows how much time is being wasted, how many computer resources tied up and so on. I mean, what's the cost of a productivity loss of 15-30 minutes a day for everybody in the world?

So good for Bill et al. They get trashed a lot, but occasionally they're good for something. (I've never been a major MS basher, even though I'm a longtime Mac user. They've long been the best Mac developer around, and have been so since day one.)

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