MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - I hate pharmaspammers!

I was writing a response detailing my bad experience with a significant other who was hooked upon a certain benzo within another thread. I'll call the problem substance "Zinyix" here. ;-)

I hate ALL spammers! When they feel that the technology gives them carte blanche to abuse it to the point our Inboxes are flooded with various toxic "pharmaceutical" remedies for insecure WASP males I can only feel for the anti-spammers who have to keep that dike forever plugged.

It was, much to my chagrin, that the proper spelling of "Zinyix" didn't allow my reply to make it upon the boards until I realized what was going on. And, with no doubt within my own mind, I think that the generic name would be banned as well.

Spammers LOVE to preach about free speech. The problem is that they are NOT paying for that bulk-equivalent of shouting their bloomin' heads off! In the end, to fend off spam, sysadmins have to enforce filters that do a great job at blocking the spam since most of it is for the illicit procurement of controlled substances.

The problem is that those same filters block clinical speech. And I don't blame the sysadmins for wanting to keep their systems clean. I blame the spammers because they abused it all to have those gates erected in the first place!

Speech isn't free. There is always a price to to be paid given the content of what you chose to disseminate. Sure, you can exclaim anything you want to the public and the high heavens. But there is always going to be another voice to either support or counter what you throw out there.

This is not a one-way conduit like the corporate-owned/corporate-subsidized mass media of television, magazines, radio and newspapers. Spammers need to learn that.

Dead seriously,

--Bekki

P.S. I welcome support and/or brickbats. Besides, if spammers sucked I'd support them for they'd be good for something.

Combating functional illiteracy with latex-clad drama since the '80s, because old video games rule!