I have a reasonably inexpensive per minute plan. The vast majority of land line dialup users have unlimited plans.
You can complain and attempt to socially engineer people all you want. It's totally ineffective. Most of us have other fish to fry. So we go for the solutions that actually work. Yes, I have read plain old paper books while waiting for OS installs, long compiles, and the like. I often get up and play with my dog.
You can knock yourself out any way you want, for all I care. I just think you're totally silly, thinking you're going to change the spammers with your grousing. Do you want solutions or do you just want to complain? The cron suggestion is quite apart from spammers. There's tons of legit posts in this forum that you'll still have to download. The spam is small potatoes. Also, the complaints about the spam greatly exceed the length of the spam itself.
news.net-abuse does, if you actually care to find out.
I find such a stance reactionary.
They aren't focused on the embedded market.
Because at any given time, the majority is employed. When you are in the minority some day, you'll feel differently about having quality job resources available to you.
Cheers, Brandon Van Every