First, let's kill all the ... SPAMMERS!

Mitch Kapor notes in his blog that he has had to require registration for comments and turn off trackbacks because of spam.  He particularly laments the latter as reducing the connectivity of the web.  I don't usually react to events or people with anger, but spam and spyware make me FURIOUS!  They're persoanlly invasive, and for no purpose.  I don't know about killing 'em, but, if they put a spammer or spyware perpetrator in stocks, I'd drive 500 miles to throw rotten vegetables at 'em.  Put 'em in naked and let 'em sunburn, peel, and sunburn again.  Really.  We ought to treat Islamo-fascist-criminals with decency, not because they deserve it, but because it's in our best interest.  But spammers and spyware perpetrators are surely no longer human, if they ever were!  We just need to discourage them from making their sordid existence come to our attention!