The Fool wrote:
From: Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Folks,
The following message is the boilerplate that moveon.org is providing
to help get the word out about what they're calling an "email tax",
under which large emailers can basically buy the right to spam AOL
users.
What do you expect from evil companies like AOL and Yahoo!? They do
evil $h!t like this all the time.
Internet petitions do not work.
I'd like to see a good 2000-word explanation of the last sentence. (I
agree that they do not work, I'd like for someone to go into reasons
why, see if any ones new to me pop up.)
E-mail petitions are worse than useless, IMO, but we've been getting
away from those.
And polls, unless you're targeting a very specific group (say, your
friends list on LiveJournal or some subset thereof, or the members of a
mailing list that is, to some degree or another, closed). Unless the
poll is totally for your own amusement, where you're trying to get
off-the-wall answers to a question that may or may not be silly. With
polls, it's because the people participating in any sort of poll will
be, to some degree or another, self-selected, and you can't really gauge
general trends from a self-selected group.
Julia
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