Cory over at Boing Boing has a nice post about the Yahoo/AOL/Goodmail system’s affects on free speech.

To restate the obvious, this service is nothing more than a new revenue stream.

It will do NOTHING to reduce spam.

If these companies were serious about stopping spam, they would attack the root of the issue, companies who sell products using spam.

Pharmaceuticals, mortgages and other products advertised in spam, all lead to real companies and real dollars.

Without marketing budgets spam would die.

I suspect the reason this avenue is not pursued is similar to the war on drugs.

Follow the spam, you’ll find easily replaced cogs. Follow the money, you may find your own boss signing off on the marketing budget.

If anyone wants to help setup a spam product directory, I have a domain that is perfect, spamproducts.com