I was reading the newspaper the other day and came across this in the Letters To The Editor section. This lady is clueless, I figured I would post it here for a few good laughs.
<< Why doesn?t the government take control of e-mail? It seems like an easy enough thing to do. If it could force companies such as America Online and Hotmail.com to end their services, then they could create a special branch of the U.S. Postal Service that regulated e-mail. Then the only way to e-mail anyone would be to use the offical U.S. e-mail system.
As a result of the ever advancing technologies that make computers better and easier to use, e-mail has been replacing snail mail as the preferred means of written communication. If the government began to use e-mail to it?s advantage, it would be a win-win situation. It wouldn?t have to raise stamp prices and would receive all of the profits from people e-mailing each other.
It would make some people think twice before hitting their ?forward? buttons, but that would only decrease the abundance of useless junk mail that floats around constantly. Spamming would dwindle. Who wants to pay that much just to send the same e-mail to thouands of people?
Online services would survive. AOL is strong enough to survive the seizure of it?s e-mailing powers, what with instant messages, home pages, profiles and such to keep people logged on. I know there are flaws in my theory, but with some fine-tuning, I think it could actually work. >>
She?s right about one thing, they sure are flaws in her theory, a lot of them. I don?t even have the time or desire to even correct her ?theory?. Some people just shouldn?t be allowed to have a computer until they can prove that have at least the portrayal of some basic common sense.
<< Why doesn?t the government take control of e-mail? It seems like an easy enough thing to do. If it could force companies such as America Online and Hotmail.com to end their services, then they could create a special branch of the U.S. Postal Service that regulated e-mail. Then the only way to e-mail anyone would be to use the offical U.S. e-mail system.
As a result of the ever advancing technologies that make computers better and easier to use, e-mail has been replacing snail mail as the preferred means of written communication. If the government began to use e-mail to it?s advantage, it would be a win-win situation. It wouldn?t have to raise stamp prices and would receive all of the profits from people e-mailing each other.
It would make some people think twice before hitting their ?forward? buttons, but that would only decrease the abundance of useless junk mail that floats around constantly. Spamming would dwindle. Who wants to pay that much just to send the same e-mail to thouands of people?
Online services would survive. AOL is strong enough to survive the seizure of it?s e-mailing powers, what with instant messages, home pages, profiles and such to keep people logged on. I know there are flaws in my theory, but with some fine-tuning, I think it could actually work. >>
She?s right about one thing, they sure are flaws in her theory, a lot of them. I don?t even have the time or desire to even correct her ?theory?. Some people just shouldn?t be allowed to have a computer until they can prove that have at least the portrayal of some basic common sense.
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