Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>]

> Email should be a method of communication, not a method of
> advertising.

What's the difference?  What method of communication hasn't been used
to carry advertising?

> Think of it as a cell phone: Do you want advertising on your mobe?

No.

> Would you like to give companies incentives to advertise on this
> medium?  Why are you putting up with it on email then?

What makes you think I am?  And I don't put up with phone cold-calls
either.  I tell them flat out, I won't buy this from you, *because* you
cold-called me about it.  Then I drop their caller-ID into what I
informally call my "phone spammer" list, and the next time they call
they get special information tones (the 950/1400/1800 Hz sequence, to
make automated equipment think the line is dead) plus a recording for
humans explaining that I don't accept calls from numbers that have
cold-called me.

> Still we havent shown advertisers that sending averts via SMTP is
> wrong,

It's not wrong, when it's done consensually.  IMO at least.  "Consent,
not content."

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