"Just hit delete", the spammers said. "Just unsubscribe", the spammers said. I'm old, I remember when usenet spam rolled in with Canter and Siegel. The origina

"Just hit delete", the spammers said. "Just unsubscribe", the spammers said. I'm old, I remember when usenet spam rolled in with Canter and Siegel. The original sociopathic usenet and email spammers wanted everyone to delete the spam posts and emails. Everyone except the spammers said that wouldn't work. Every piece of proposed legislation left the door open for at least 1 spam to get through, to which everyone was supposed to unsubscribe. That wouldn't work, obviously, it gave every sociopath one bite of the apple, and some time frame between when naives unsubscribed and the law required sociopaths to stop spamming. Of course usenet crumpled under the weight of spam first. It took years for spammers to render the public phone system useless, and now they're coming for texting. This is entirely predictable. A very few people, probably less than 100, can make money from ruining texting, but a few of those 100 people will bribe the US Congress and pay a little extra to Verizon and other wireless providers to let it keep happening, just like when robocalls made voice calling useless, to great public outcry, and great official hand-wringing.