Hello Dierk, On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:47:43 +0100 GMT (21/11/02, 15:47 +0700 GMT), Dierk Haasis wrote:
> But none of that has anything to do with privacy. Correct. Not even with this thread. > The main point is that *I* decide what I want to give away and what > not - nobody else. You have *no right* to a discount. The vendor decides when and if they give you one. The vendor will also set the conditions. If you don't like the conditions, don't take advantage of a special discount. If you do, don't complain afterwards. What you forget is that TB is not a public utility. TB does not have a monoploy, either. It is a product in a competitive market (Monopolistic Competition is the correct term for the market of email clients, I would say). >> How much is your percieved privacy issue worth to you? > Privacy is a Human Right. There is no price tag. So why do you need the discount then? But then, I was not talking about privacy. I was talking about *perceived* privacy. As an ad-man, you certainly know the difference. You probably also know the difference between data mining (what ad agencies do) and information gathering (what governments do, sometimes using secret services for this). The differences are worth an essay in itself. You seem to have mixed up these terms temporarily in your paragraphs that I deleted (as they had nothing to do with this thread). > Except in Red China! Please elaborate. (On TBOT.) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. There is no gravity. The Earth sucks. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
