At 9:26 AM -0800 4/4/03, matthew richards wrote:
if spammers were only spamming once very six months i doubt the ASRG
would exist, i doubt the term SPAM would exist.
The point was that we need to be careful not to solve one problem and
create another. In particular, we don't want to legitimize sending
unsolicited bulk email, even if it isn't done frequently. Right now
we're being nailed by a large number of messages from a few people.
The opposite situation is actually far harder to control. And
legitimizing unsolicited bulk mail (with or without opt-out) could
easily create it.
Or to put it in a slightly more flip way. It's possible that the
fact that spammers make legitimate bulk email senders look bad is a
good thing. The only thing holding them back is that they'd get
grouped with the slime.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.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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