Time once again for the Duo to award more stinky stuff from that repository of refuse, the PR Piñata, where Steve and Angela put all the stuff public relations flacks send their way to try to sway their fair play. This week's question comes from Joe in Thailand, who asks, "Will it eventually take U.N. involvement or world treaties to contain the spread of unwanted spam?"
At which point Angela loses her mind entirely. She first declares that nothing short of divine intervention--very, very angry divine intervention--will cure the Net of the spam plague. She then turns the question around to Joe, asking exactly what might constitute wanted spam, other than the pinkish kind that's nice with eggs.
Cooler heads prevail, however, and before Angela can continue her jeremiad, Steve steps in to award Joe a surprisingly appealing item from the Piñata: a light pen--because the pen, grumbles Angela, is precisely where most folks would like to put spammers. For good.
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