On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:52:04AM -0800, John Morris wrote:
But that truth does not necessarily negate the value of such a notice
system. Look at the telephone "do not call" list situation in the U.S. A
bunch of states (and now the federal FTC) have developed or are developing
"do not call" lists -- usually self developed and not interoperable.
Since I live in Europe, I'm not familiar with that "do not call"
list. However, what works with phone calls doesn't work with spam.
Calling someone by phone causes real costs, because of the phone
costs, the employee, and the time. For an advertising phone caller
it is an advantage to have such a list which allows him to save
that money he would have spent to call someone who'd just say
"get off". And phone callers usually have to take care of the
companies public credit. How often did you get an annoying phone
call asking you to visit a porn website? And phone callers usually
call from within the same country, i.e. from within the same
legislation.
In contrast, a spammer doesn't have any advantage in paying attention
to such a list. Checking such a list is more expensive than just
drop and forget an email.
Hadmut
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