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Ye gods, is it freezing in here!

No wonder it's freezing. The vent was blowing cold air instead of hot. Fixed that.

It's amazing how much faster I can write in English than I can in French. Between now and Wednesday afternoon, I have to come up with at least another 2100 words of theory paper. If I just sit down and resolve not to do anything else, I can get it done in two days. The resolving not to get distracted is the hard part.

I had something deep I was going to write about, but I can't remember what it was.

the missing deep thought

What this country really needs is a recognized spam industry, so we can regulate it. I was thinking about "do-not-spam" lists, but that won't work unless we can actually find the people to penalize for spamming. It's a lovely thought, though. In my own private utopia, an ISP would be able to put itself on the do-not-spam list, thereby putting all of its users on the list. Up to now, it's been working somewhat backward. A user gets spam, reports it to the ISP, the ISP attempts to block the spammer, the spammer moves on to another address, repeat ad nauseam. It would be easier if a user got spam, reported it to the ISP, the ISP put itself on the do-not-spam list, the spammer tried it again and got fined for ignoring the do-not-spam list. Of course, this will never happen, for the same reason I keep getting snail mail addressed to "Resident". (There are probably six or seven other problems with my idea, too, but I can dream, can't I?)

On a somewhat-related note, am I wrong in assuming that the links in spam messages that say "click here to remove yourself from this list" are just looking for valid e-mail addresses, and clicking on them will only lead to my getting more spam?