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Re: In Defense of Spam
Posted by: Keith Regan 2001-11-26 15:54:11

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No one will admit to liking spam -- the canned pseudo-meat or the unsolicited e-mail that bears its name. But despite the current efforts of governments in North America and Europe to get it back into the can, spam is destined to be, and should be, a fact of Internet life -- just like junk mail is in the real world.

Re: In Defense of Spam
Posted by: cosmicway 2003-05-03 21:22:34 In reply to: Keith Regan

There are good spammers and bad spammers.
A bad spammer is one that phones you at home and says "congratulations - you just won a cellular phone" etc - etc. But I have no problem with him/her mailing me his advertisement or sending me an email (and as for the email address If I make it public it's my responsibility).
A bad spammer is someone engaged in fraud/deception or mailing pornography to unsuspected members of the public.
A bad spammer is someone who does not allow you to opt out of his list.
A bad spammer is one who does not reveal his company's identity.
Unfortunately the legislators prefer blanket measures, while the members of the public seem to be ignorant of the need of businesses to work and that advertising is their only means to do so.
Those same members of the public are happy when something along their lines of interest reaches their email box, but if it isn't they want the sender hanged from his nose and deprived of their right of free speech!
If I am a salesman of dentist's equipment and if you are not a dentist but received my advertisement, what is the big deal?
It is the advertising "shark companies" behind it, that's the truth.
But those much-talked-about measures against "spam" are definitely not going to help the economy.
The economy needs new markets, not to close the
existing ones down.
A case-sensitive approach w.r. to spam is what is needed, and we just have to make our opinions heard to avert the injustice.

Re: In Defense of Spam
Posted by: Leonard Strickland 2001-12-20 09:25:46 In reply to: Keith Regan

What a bunch of bull! I have the choice of wether or not I read my junk mail in my mailbox delivered by the USPS. This crap that I get in my e-mail box however I don't. I get about 30-40 SPAM messages a day in my work e-mail box. A vast majority of those are porn sites, viagra, home morgage, etc. I don't want these I never asked for these and they make it difficult when the jam my corporate e-mail account up with this crap.

Federal law and ISP regualations state they have to have a return address so that you can tell them to remove you. Most times those links don't work becasue the law never said they had to be vaild removal services. The other times they do just like your phone SPAMMERS do. They take you off that call list, realize your home, then sell your information to 1,000 other SPAMMERS and it starts all over again only this time worse.

I wish I could bring a suit against the companies that do this but most times you can't even contact them sinc the information they give is bogus and they just want your e-mail address so they can sell it to 1,000 other people.

Shame on them!!! and shame on you!!!

Re: In Defense of Spam
Posted by: cosmicway 2003-05-03 21:30:13 In reply to: Leonard Strickland

Only a newbie receives 30-40 spam mails a day.
Why did you make your email address public?