Why not just boycott whatever the companies are selling and sending a email to customer service telling them that you will never buy their products as long as they let their products be marketed by SPAMers.
Julian Wall On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 08:17:07 -0700, "Fargusson.Alan" wrote: > > Good question. I think the answer is that the companies that make the > products insulate themselves from the marketing companies. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 3:01 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: list admin: we're being tracked > > > What I was wondering was, if going after the spammers is so very difficult, > why doesn't someone go after the companies they are spieling for? > > Hit them up with stalking and harrassment laws, get a class action suit > going, > get the governments of our various nations to make hawking drugs illegal > over > the internet, and get Viagra defined as a prescription-only controlled > substance. > > I'm sure we could come up with something. > > Wesley Parish > > On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:48, you wrote: > > Hello from Gregg C Levine > > Well, yes, Rich, I do care, and no I don't like it. If I need to find > > a message, I'll check my locally stored messages, here. If I don't > > have it, I'll ask here for the locations of the Marist site. However, > > for some this could be a good idea. I wonder if they remember to > > obscure the addresses? And I'm not going to reiterate, where I saw > > that thread before, and its subsequent outcome. Oh, and thank you for > > bringing this up. > > ------------------- > > Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > > "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi > > (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) > > (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda ) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > > > Of > > > > > Richard Troth > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 5:39 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [LINUX-390] list admin: we're being tracked > > > > > > FYI, for those who care about such things, > > > this list is being tracked by http://www.mail-archive.com/. > > > Sorry for the duplicate info if this was mentioned before. > > > > > > Why should you care? > > > Such tracking is easy fodder for e-mail address harvesters. BAD > > > Tracking services make web search of the list easy. GOOD > > > Personally, I have other ways of checking the archives, > > > so I prefer to NOT have the list tracked nor peered to NetNews. > > > But I must confess that I have used such services. > > > > > > -- R; > > -- > Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" > You ask, "What is the most important thing?" > Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." > I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
