At 10:32 PM -0500 3/29/03, John R Levine wrote:
> >I find it hard to think of any circumstance where it's useful to consider
>a one-to-one message to be spam. It may be annoying for some other
>reason, but without bulk, there's no spam problem.
I'm the naked man in a glass room - I have no way of knowing how many
recipients the message has. I can never know I've been spammed?
Of course you can. It doesn't take much intelligence to tell an actual
individual message from a human from faux personalized junk mail.
Exhibit 1.
A message asking to be added to my mailing list. Spam was simply the
URL in the .signature. I would have fallen for it but they went a
touch too far and included a picture as well.
Exhibit 2.
A message to abuse complaining about spam. The spam was the message
that they were "complaining" about.
Exhibit 3.
Message asking me to attend a conference. (You've probably seen these.)
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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