Email - the new battlefield.

Is it not quite amazing how the law of unintended consequences has become a self-fulfilling prophecy?

When nuclear physics entered the realm of human understanding and thoughts of clean, unexhaustable energy were being discussed, Oppenheimer was creating the atomic bomb to "protect western civilization." Although why they had to drop another one three days later (when the war was effectively over...) yes, well I digress.

Email was developed as a method of instantaneous communication. We were going to save time and create a paperless office. Yet the levels of spam (not the Monty Python variety) that enter mailboxes on a daily basis make checking email one of the greated chores of all time. Even worse than spam, in my opinion, is bulk email that 'business contacts' mass-forward to all their 'associates'. Amusing photographs from the olympic weightlifting... I don't care! People do it without thinking, on a daily basis. It gets checked and deleted without any further consideration, but such checking is required because spam filters were not designed to block business contacts who are at the time being paid to waste other people's time.

So, to all of you mass-forwarders out there:

THE CHICKEN IS WATCHING YOU.