You know who's to blame for spam?  I mean, really, deep-down the root cause?  Buddhists.  No, really.  Bear with me.  Buddhists are the guys who came up with the prayer wheel: a mechanical device that chunters through scripture automatically.  Prayer wheels driven by wind or water are old and traditional and very cool, and they increase the net level of enlightenment on Earth.

That will never do.  There's balance to be considered.  You can't just go around enlightening the whole world.  What insolence, what arrogance!
 
And so the dark side whispered in a few ears, and suggested to a few crooks that a bit of automated villiany would be a smart move.  The crooks win, but more importantly the internet becomes full of a grinding miasma of fraud attempts and adverts for stuff whose sole benefit is to make you feel as good as you did before you read this advert (you dickless, pimple-breasted, pudgy low-rent dirtball, yes, you, c'mon, click here).  And unlike the dread sigil odegra, which can fill up with traffic and stop moving, the spam factories keep on keeping on, day and night, limited only by the bandwidth they can con out of people.

Balance is restored.

It shall be permitted to punch spammers in the throat.