On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Ross Wright wrote:
On Or About 20 Aug 96, 16:23, Jim Gillogly wrote:
Vipul Ved Prakash <vipul@pobox.com> writes:
I don't know if there has been much discussion on the ethics of spamming here? Is spamming free speech?
I oppose spamming because it's rude and inefficient, lowering the S/N everywhere it happens. Market droids
Market Droids???? As a salesman I take offence at this slur.
Don't bother. There is a difference between marketing and sales. Lighten up. Good salesmen are born with the ability - marketing is a bad attempt at appyling engineering principles to the same. As for spamming, I get enough of it via snail-mail, I don't want to see it in my Inbox too. And, for the record, there are lots of people out there who pay on the bulk charge, not by time. Sending advertising or junk mail to these folks costs them money, maybe not much for the one message you sent, but several thousand over a month of a quarter add up to real money. There is a time and place for legitimate advertising. I am sure that given time and impetus, a number of clear channel venues will open up to allow precision marketing and sales to happen electronicly. At the moment, it's bad nettiquette... ...Paul