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Re: [Asrg] Projecting

2008-11-28 18:31:06
Bart Schaefer <schaefer(_at_)brasslantern(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Nov 28, 12:19pm, Seth wrote:
}} 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?

It's my mailbox.

} 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)?

No, all you have to do is _solicit_ those menus.

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?

I don't want anything shoved under my door to trip me, period.  I have
no problem with them leaving piles of menus in the mail room where I
can look at them and take one if _I_ feel like it, and they don't get
in my way when I don't.  That's a lot like putting ads on their own
web site, isn't it?

Perhaps you're unusual as compared to the majority of the population.

Sure; except for me, everybody likes having Chinese restaurant menus
shoved under their door.  Well, make that me and the entire population
of New York City.

} 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.

But if Amazon already pays, Barry is happy receiving their mail
because it's paid for.  So I concluded that Barry's system would
require _additional_ payment.

Seth

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