InfoHighway Map Weather Station Having recently gone to DSL and begun to host our own services, we've had to also begin to deal with an annoying 'net 'phenomenon' more directly. I'm the last guy to complain much about anyone wanting to make a buck. Hell, I want to make a few, myself.
Spammers have none.
By means of some unfathomable reasoning, spammers have come to the conclusion that its OK for them to steal services from sites where the local administrator lacks either the wit, knowledge or sufficient paranoia to have protected his or her system's assets sufficiently. Using free, throw-away accounts on ISPs around the world, they bombard the rest of us with their pathetic messages, routed via the inadequately secured systems of innocent third parties. I'm no fan of old-fashioned, paper junk mail either. I neither wanted nor needed in the first place. Spammers, on the other hand, rank somewhere below whale excrement in the overall scheme of things.