Re: Spam Film Idea

"Steve Holmes" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> POP wrote:
>
>> That's not going to be an info-mercial is it?
>>
>> "Steve Holmes" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> > Seems that education is the ultimate way to defeat spam, or 
>> > at
>> > least to
>> > reduce it dramatically.  The sharper the consumer, the less
>> > likely he or
>> > she is to fall victim to an online con. With that in mind, I 
>> > am
>> > thinking
>> > of producing a film on spam and how to fight it. (snip)
>
> Informercial? For what? Sorry if I left that impression. It's 
> supposed
> to be a documentary about how to detect, avoid and fight spam.
>
>
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> Steve Holmes
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>

No, you didn't leave that impression; I came up with that Q all 
on my own with my own little pair of brain cells<g>. 
Coincidentally, I'd just come from trying not to listen to a 
Canadian version of PBS showing how to fight spam and it turned 
out to be, after about fifteen minutes, a bait&switch to get you 
to buy their computers because they knew all about spam and how 
to control it.  I was still a little irked.  Sorry if I projected 
some of that your way.

I love your idea, actually, and IMO, I think it should be a 
two-part, probably half hour mini-series on the subject.  And 
with a good mix of ISPs represented also, in addition to the 
spammers.  Maybe some law enforcement if they can be talked into 
it; some of them like a camera pointed at them.
   If it should hit with the audience, maybe it could grow into 
something more for the next season, who knows?  Somehow you'd 
need a way to alert an audience to the show's airtimes/dates in 
order to replace the ones that leave because they aren't 
interested.  You know, ratings and all that.
   In the end, I wish it could escalate until some news media of 
some sort picks it up as one of those short, daily "reports' on 
the state of today's spam or some such thing.  Material would be 
SO easy to get!  It should have become a daily part of media life 
a good three years ago; maybe we wouldn't be where we are now.

Cheers,

Pop