On Sunday, Apr 27, 2003, at 03:01 US/Eastern, Chris Lewis wrote:
The difference between Usenet and Email spam is that one logical
Usenet article reaches everyone. If you can cause that to be erased
(by a "cancel"), then it's gone for everyone.
With email, there's thousands of logically different messages, each to
different people, where only a few people see each one. If they
delete their copy, it doesn't affect the others.
Right. That's the basic observation behind the idea of making e-mail a
pull-only protocol.
mathew
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