1. Some spam is malicious and/or predatory. Claims can "legally" be made in spam which would be prohibited -- and rightly -- in commercial snail-mail.
2. Because there is cost involved for the sender, it is almost always possible to turn off unwanted snail mail. 3. I my state, Confusion, -er- Wisconsin, I can recycle almost all paper that comes into the house. Just the same, I try to stop all unwanted mail. I agree about the waste of resources. 4. Some people still pay for connect time with modem connections. For them, some spam can be rather expensive, even if unopened. 5. All spam essentially increases the cost of our email service. Unless legal action is taken, this problem will continue to grow worse. Commercial snail mail *reduces* the cost of normal mail service. 6. Like the billboards along the highway in Georgia, spam is *needlessly *ugly.** Roger Diggle This message produced with a minimum of 37% post-consumer recycled electrons. 12/17/02 2:43 PM Sheafe Ewing ever so carefully typed: >After reading the current thread(s) about SPAM, and an editorial in my >local paper this AM on the same topic, it has occurred to me how very >little this material impacts our lives. > >Please read on my "letter to the editor." > >Subject: Let's talk about SPAM >Date: 12/17/02 10:08 AM >To: Editor, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >The Times editorial "Law won't stop spam", touched only the bare surface >of a problem most of us face each day when we go to our mailbox, pick up >our newspaper and drive our roads. > >I agree with the Times, "Ultimately , consumers should decide just what >information they >want and don't want to receive,...." > >Yes, but the electronic TRASH is much easier to handle; ridding ourselves >of this nuisance >is relatively quick and painless using the Delete key. > >Whereas the disposal of the hundreds of pounds of unsolicited printed >"mail" all of us receive yearly through the U.S. Postal Service and (yes) >as part of our morning newspaper, produces trash with infinite more cost >of disposal and impact on our environment. > >Perhaps we should be looking more toward solving the problems created by >the Real Trash in our mailboxes, on our driveways, streets and highways. >Electronic spam pales by comparison. > >Sheafe Ewing >Walnut Creek ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
