One of the problems with the current anti-spam environment is thatthere are not enough disincentives against doing really horriblethings , like spam, virus, and so on notificationautoresponders, or challenge response systems, or your favorite abuse.Practically speaking, people doing these things do not bear any costsfor their actions, or at least none large enough to make them noticeanything wrong.

(In fact there pretty much aren't any disincentives at the moment.There are a few blocklists of places that do bad things

In thinking more about my dislike of smooth scrolling , I think it's useful to distinguish scrollingthrough something from panning through it. The difference is thatpanning operations are a continuous process, whereas scrolling is adiscrete thing that theoretically has a specific size that it's supposedto jump.

Since panning is continuous anyways, panning operations clearly cansmooth 'scroll' without problems; it matches how people think of them tostart with. Scrolling, especially scrolling large amounts, is not likethat so (at least