POWERHOUSE wrote: > > No, I do agree, that Fax blasting is WRONG. That does cost people money. > Email Does Not. Just like if your are watching > TV and you see an ad. You have a choice to watch it or NOT. In your Snail > Mail. You can through the letter away or NOT.
Mr Powerhouse: This argument is weak. Very weak. In fact, it is based on a fallacy. e-mail does cost people money. I know that as an ISP, we pay traffic charges, and CPU time on our mailserver is not free either. As a home user, I pay connect-time charges. What does the spammer pay? Relatively little in comparison. It is truly the recipient that ends up swallowing the costs. This is opposite other mediums: Fax: you will likely get it long distance, costing you pennies (especially if you have a decent fax machine) and costing them about 40 cents per page. Mail: you pay nothing to recieve it, the sender pays about 40 cents per envelope to send it (plus medium costs) TV: you pay relatively little for the cable service when you compare to the thousands or millions of dollars spent to run a 30 second ad. > I just don't think people should be able to cry spam, when 75% of the time, > they have signed up for something somewhere and > they just forget about it. I am a webhost. Not a reseller either. I do not > shut down my clients for spam, unless the person who sent > it cannot verify that the person in some way either emailed them FIRST, or You know how easy it is to manufacture an e-mail message? There's a reason that they're not quite as rock solid as a handwritten letter in court. > Then it's NOT spam. X being critical factors. Then when people ask to be > removed, and they are NOT removed, they should get a fine > or something like that, to keep the "balance" on the internet. I just don't > think that their should be 1000 different laws as to what constitutes > Spam. If that is the case, and say you have a customer, who falls under the Spam is the common term for UCE or Unsolicited Commercial E-mail. Dissecting this term, we find that the message must meet three qualifications: 1, Unsolicited -- user did not request this information; 2, Commercial -- someone somewhere is going to profit from this; 3, e-mail -- must come by e-mail. If it fits those three categories, it is spam. > Just because they are you customer, don't mean you have the right to send > them email, and that is a what I'm talking about. Their That is debatable. A company-client relationship changes it from unsolicited to solicited. > everyones got them and they all stink. I know mine does to a lot of people, > but I think that is the way it should be. Filters work, but they could also > filter out GOOD email. Like maybe a domain Expiration warning. Things like > that. > > anyways, Not everyone agrees with what I think, and I don't agree with what > everyone thinks. Life goes on.... Spam is wrong. I'm sure it could be arranged to have all the list members start forwarding their spam to you, if you want proof... -kb -- Kris Benson ABC Communications +1 (250)612-5270 x204 +1 (888)235-1174 x204
