[FDE] OT: Should we be impaling Spammers?

[Allen]

Ali, Saqib wrote:
> Or at least execute them? Cast your vote at:
> http://security-basics.blogspot.com/2007/10/execute-spammers.html
> 
> Votes so far: 92
> 
> YES! : 47 (51%)
> No : 16 (17%)
> Spam doesn't bother me : 5 (5%)
> Executing them will not help : 24 (26%)

Ah, I see, so we should revert to what has been shown for at 
least the last 300 years to not work at all reliably. In fact if 
one does the research, one finds that, just as there were 
pickpockets (a capital offense at the time) at hangings Tyburn in 
18th century London, there spammers will be hard at work while 
spammers are made examples of by Vlad the Impaler in Times Square.

It is well demonstrated that US states with the death penalty 
have, on the whole, more violent crime than those without. Just 
as we are quickly falling behind in broadband reach and speed, we 
are falling behind the rest of the civilized world when it comes 
to sentencing and capital punishment.

There is lots more that can be said on the subject, but this is 
not the list for it so I will forbear any further comment, except 
this parting shot: What is the definition of crazy? Isn't it, 
Repeating the actions of the past and expecting a different 
outcome?"  Funny, as in strange, how common this thinking is in IT.

Allen