Byron Dorgan: “I have been watching. Everybody is pretty much congratulating everybody else. Let me add my congratulations. This is an…”

“I have been watching. Everybody is pretty much congratulating everybody else. Let me add my congratulations. This is an important issue. There are some serious people who have done serious work on this matter. I don't know where the word spam came from. I suspect someone has described that today. It is a luncheon meat in northern Minnesota in our region of the country. But spam is a term used to describe those unsolicited messages that are sent into your computer. It has become much more than just a nuisance. It was not too long ago, perhaps even a year or two, these unsolicited notices you receive through e-mail and other devices were a nuisance. Now it is a very serious problem. Log on to your computer and see what happens. You have intruders in that computer, and they are flagging for you gambling sites and dating sites and pornography, virtually everything. Go to your e-mail and find out how many unsolicited e-mails you have had. You have more friends than you thought you had. Dozens and dozens of people and groups are writing to you. Most of them, of course, are pornographic, and they are unsolicited kinds of messages you wouldn't want to explore, nor would you want your family to explore.”