On Nov 28, 12:19pm, Seth wrote:
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} Barry Shein <bzs(_at_)world(_dot_)std(_dot_)com> wrote:
} > I don't particularly care if it was solicited or not.
}
} I do. That's what matters.
Why? What makes your opinion of what and how email should arrive in
your mailbox more valid than Barry's?
} I don't care whether the local Chinese restaurants pay somebody or not
} to slip menus under my door, *I don't want those menus*.
So if I _want to_ receive Chinese restaurant menus, you would prevent
that from happening (because neither the Chinese restaurant nor I am
willing to jump through whatever hoops you require)?
What if they were Italian restaurant menus, or menus from a coffee shop
you already visit every morning on the way to work? Is there really
truly NOTHING you EVER want to see unless you explicitly asked for it?
Perhaps you're unusual as compared to the majority of the population.
} So if I _want to_ receive their ads, you would prevent that from
} happening (because neither Amazon nor I am willing to make whatever
} payments you want to require)?
I'm impressed that you know that about Amazon. With the exception of
spammers, nearly everyone already pays to send bulk email, so Amazon
is pretty unusual too. Even the people who are selling Canadian pharma
or pumping penny stocks are probably paying a spammer to send it.
Yeah, I'm being deliberately contrarian, but staying this course has been
so effective so far that I thought maybe we needed a little chance to
reflect on the past before we are swept off to the inevitable future
where everyone knows and respects the explicit preferences that everyone
else was able to state in advance.
Now excuse me while I go read my horoscope over a glass of MonaVie, or
I'll be late for my appointment with my personal psychic advisor.
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