Watch it Knute! They're headin' fer the henhouse!

Sometimes it amazes me as to what constitutes a joint business venture. Now we have Microsoft, AOL, Earthlink and Yahoo joining combining forces to "fight" spam. One story is at Vnunet. Let's see, the main purpose of spyware is to glean info so the bad guys can send spam, popups, popunders, etc. to unknowing innocent victims that really don't want this junk. Okay, there are those few that are masochists and want the stuff. It's a known fact that Yahoo not only endorses shady spyware practices, but implements it as well. I'd expect this type of behavior from AOL, NOT from Earthlink and especially Microsoft. Ahhhhh the old fox in the henhouse trick and they've made the sly devil Sargent of the Guard...

"Commerce, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E."
-Ambrose Bierce