Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 02:20:19AM -0700, richard winter wrote:
> > ``We are trying to lay the foundations to develop an e-mail
> > preference service globally, for consumers to opt out of
> > receiving unwanted e-mail solicitations,'' he told Reuters.
>
> As I'm sure you know, "opt-out" is unacceptable. The anti-spam
> community is well aware of the attempts of organizations like
> this to legitimize the theft-of-services/denial-of-services attacks
> commonly referred to as "spam", and we're fighting them.
No doubt. How did we go straight to "opt-out" and assume that the right
to send lies with the advertisers? Seems to be there ought to be an
opt-in approach -- unless I click a button specifically signing me up
for a specific service, my mailbox is mine.
Would much prefer seeing "opt-out" refer to our "opting" to take spam
"out" of the net altogether.
Anyone ever notice that the fight for rights on the net is beginning to
parallel in many ways the same things that happened when "commerce and
opportunity" led the way into the New World, Africa, Asia and numerous
other places 200 years ago? Same assumptions by those claiming the
"rights", same responses from governments, same tactics by those trying
to save their small chunks of ground . . ..
Brett
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