>>On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:12:31 -0400, "Dana Nutter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>wrote: >>This still doesn't stop them from coming down your walkway, >>knocking on your door, disrupting whatever you were doing so you >>can go answer the door. Yes, you could put up a "No soliciting" >>sign. But how many will respect it? Some maybe, but not all.
>Big difference between spam and door-knocking... The door-to-door >solicitation can be (and has been) effectively stopped. In *my* >community, a solicitor knocking on my door will be arrested for >criminal trespass. The city actually enforces that ordinance, so the >door-to-door sales types *all* respect it. >There are other places in the US with even stronger ordinances (some >cities in Colorado, for instance). >-- >Howard Lee Harkness Door-to-door hasn't been stopped here. I live in a rural area where the houses are far enough apart to make it difficult, but it still happens occasionally. I've had churches, politicians and salesmen. All of which had to drive 200 feet along my private driveway to get to my house. To get to the next house, they'll have to drive back down my driveway, and to the next house (with a much longer driveway). If they move quickly enough, they may cover 8-10 houses in an hour. I expected that to be a big deterrent to solicitors and was very surprised when people started ringing my doorbell. Now figure this is quite a bit of trouble to go through to sell something. Both the door-to-door salesman and the spammer have one thing in common. A lack of respect for your time and your property. The spammer has the advantage of a much easier job. He uses a quick and automated processed which can trample upon many thousands, or even millions in a single day with little effort on his own part. Wasting many more man-hours in one spam run than a door-to-door solicitor can in a lifetime. Then there is the issue of cost shifting with spammers. Whether you effectively block them or not is irrelevant. You are still paying the cost of the additional bandwidth ISP's must handle due to spam traffic. I've been seeing estimates of as much as 10-20% additional cost to the consumer due to spam. And the numbers are definitely rising, not falling. _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
