We all hate it, but it s hard to avoid and still experience the full serendipity of the Net. I ve noticed that if you hit the Reply button and tell a spammer to go away, the message almost always gets returned as undeliverable. Notice the spammers don t like getting what they give. I d pay extra to an Internet service provider who ran through my incoming e-mail and tested to see when the Reply function wouldn t work. They could then shove all messages from people who didn t want a response into a separate folder for me to peruse at my leisure or trash in one fell swoop.
More information drives a solution to bad information.
I remember years ago hearing a harrowing tale of two young ladies both around 19 or 20 years old. One lunchtime they were walking along a downtown street in a major metropolis. Suddenly, to the horror of observers, the wall of a multi-storied building being razed by a demolition crew started to fall outward toward the street instead of inward. The girls were directly in the line of the collapsing masonry. They both looked up and froze for a second.