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Re: spammers will move offshore?
From: Daniel Senie <dts () senie com>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:35:08 -0400
David Charlap wrote:
Morgan Dollard wrote:Im confuesed about the origin of this discussion, since i mised the kick off, but i see way too much concern over spam, we've all been receiving junk mail in our Mailboxes (paper plastic stuff) for years, and has any1 ever been sued or banned from the US postal service for it?There's a difference. When someone physically mails you an ad, you suffer no damages. The sender pays for the ad. It costs you nothing to receive it.
Often repeated, but untrue. Someone has to spend TIME to sort through the junk. That time has value. Someone has to pay for carting the trash off to the landfill or recycling center. There is normally a cost associated with this as well. What is true is with postal junk mail, the sender pays SOME of the cost, whereas with email junk, the sender pays nothing or so close to nothing as to be unmeasurable on a per-piece basis. Paper junk mail represents a very real cost to companies. Think about the 3 or 4 pieces you get each day at the office, multiplied by hundreds or thousands of people in a facility. I find it impossible to get off some folks' junk (paper) mail lists. Calling, writing, emailing, telling them I'll never buy their products or services is no deterrent. Example: Learning Tree (provide computer-related training) has been sending me junk mail for 16 years. I've asked for it to stop, but it's cheaper for them to just send stuff than it is to prune their list when requested. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie dts () senie com Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com
Current thread:
- spammers will move offshore? Barry Shein (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? Derek J. Balling (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? J.D. Falk (Aug 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: spammers will move offshore? Morgan Dollard (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? David Charlap (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? Daniel Senie (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? Shawn McMahon (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? J.D. Falk (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? David Charlap (Aug 10)
- RE: spammers will move offshore? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? Bradley Dunn (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? Gary E. Miller (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? Steve Sobol (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? David Lesher (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? Sam Thomas (Aug 11)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? Gary E. Miller (Aug 10)
- Re: spammers will move offshore? Derek J. Balling (Aug 10)