Joe and all,
Joe, I agree with you conclusion entirely. But amongst this
group the anti-spammer kooks seem to be in the majority.
Another thing that really bothers me in particular is what
some people define as spamm. Anything they don't like
that is posted to a mailing list that they are a member of,
some consider that spamm. Interesting definition.
J. Baptista wrote:
> You don't get it do you. People are signing up for free internet services
> to which thery agree to receive email adverts - or stuff like that. There
> is an increasing need to have a commercial email top level domain. Thos
> who subscribe to free services agree to get adverts - those that do not
> can block at the smtp mta by means of tld.
>
> With respect to porn, it's much harder to block new domains in anti porn
> filters like i-l-o-v-e-h-e-r-t-w-a-t.com, but very easy to block an entire
> dot.sex tld. You get my drift. It makes legislatures jobs much easier.
>
> Right now the anti-spam nuts are trying to get mta's reprogrammed for some
> type of banner exchange. Crazy stuff. But it's much easier to block at
> the dns level, the mta will just send an error message. See what I mean,
> the tools exists to provide the net with answers to existing communication
> problem.
>
> It would also serve the pro spammers - or as they would like to call
> themselves - pro commercial emailers. At this time most of their
> marketing techniques seem to be restricted to some monster called ffa
> blaster. If your really interested in knowing more about it, just do a
> search engin look up.
>
> This FFA blaster apparrently generates nightly over 300,000 email
> exchanges. That's per blaster. In some cases these blasters (what they
> call safe posting lists) have generated enought email to drown large
> isp's. Recently Ottawa's istar.ca had major smtp problems for this very
> reason.
>
> Of course these people like the anti-spam people are also nuts. Some
> actually read the thousands of email communications they receive per day.
> Other use extensive filtering devices and never actually read all this
> email, but do autorespond to it.
>
> I'm getting really concerned that the future of electronic marketing is
> being restricted to mass mail programs generated by robots, replied to by
> robots, filed and deleted by robots, with minimal human intervention.
>
> So you can see what I'm getting at - both groups are kooks.
>
> Regards
> Joe Baptista
>
> On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Peter Veeck wrote:
>
> > Who needs a "free" service. These people sign up for a two week free trial, run a
>test one
> > night, and run all night distributing their goods the next night. By the time the
>complaints
> > start coming in they have left town and you support people have several hundred or
>thousand
> > complaints to answer. The privacy lobby tore up the caller ID system so bad that
>it is
> > difficult to tie the SPAMMer to a physical location.
> >
> > Peter Veeck
> >
> > "J. Baptista" wrote:
> >
>
Regards,
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