On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 01:00, Mike McKay wrote: > Abraham Pearson wrote: > > I share your dislike of unsolicited commercial e-mail. The > > average size is 11 KB. We send e-mails to a select list of customers > > who can permanently unsubscribe at any time. > > > --- "Robinson, Eric R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It would be really helpful to know the average size of the e-mail > >> messages, and a little more about the nature of the mailing. I can't > >> speak for anyone else, but 'm not particularly inclined to help > >> someone supercharge his targeted spam server. :-) > > Sorry, but I'm with Eric on this one. 15,000 emails per hour is roughly the > entire population of Reno per day. Most spam I receieve says I can > unsubscribe, but usually it just gets you on more lists. I believe Abraham
If I may step up on my soap box for a few minutes, Commercial bulk email will eventually cause our the current version of electronic mail to buckle. I see nothing wrong with sending 15,000 emails per hour; a mailing list makes sense for such a thing. Perhaps you are running an notification service, where there are 360,000 people a day who need your notification. I think I should start sending out 360,000 emails a day too, or perhaps everyone has a list of people who have opt'd in to get mailings? In general though, I think it is a bad idea to publicly admit that you are sending out bulk email, opt-in or not. Call me a censor or someone who isn't an advocate of free speech all you want, but I think most Internet users curl up into a little ball and begin to cry at the first hint of bulk email. That being said, a local Reno restaurant *cough*FamousMurphy's*cough* recently got a hold of at least 4 of my email addresses that I had supposedly "opt-in" with. It is a bad way of doing business, and I encourage anyone who receives bulk email to black list that vendor or business. I get enough unwanted ads in a day, ThankYouVeryMuch. -- Mark C. Ballew [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sublinear.net http://markballew.com PGP: 0xB2A33008 AIM: pdx110 "I wish those people just would be quiet," -- Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, complaining about computer security researchers.
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