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Stephen Downes

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They will, of course, ruin it for all spammers, those mass mailers who deluge people - including children - with material which is, to say the least, inappropriate. "Four out of five children receive inappropriate spam e-mail touting get-rich-quick schemes, and almost half receive spam linking to pornographic materials, according to a study released Monday by an Internet security company." There being no real way to stop the deluge, short of cutting off their email entirely, parents and teachers can cope only through education. Eventually, like the rest of us, they will stop using email.

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