At 02:18 PM 4/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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.
I agree. The DMA-types still believe in the legitimacy of first-contact
email. They probably want to restrict that to targeted lists rather than
the spam-everyone approach of the current abusive spammers (and claim that
"targeted" first-contact email isn't spam - they'll gladly remove the
unwilling from THAT list.) The DMA-type spam is, ultimately, the bigger
threat, and legitimatizing it is greatly to be avoided.
It is still very worthwhile to end the abusive spam. Stopping the DMA-type
spam is a more complex problem - they surely have legislators convinced
that they are innovative ethical businesspeople.
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