At 2:54 PM -0800 5/13/97, Ray Arachelian wrote:
Point is that in every one of their posts that I've gotten they have a "send email to this address with subject cancel" only it doesn't do shit. They place something that makes it look like they will not spam you if you ask them not to, but they do anyway.
So?
Yeah, they use the "cancel" messages to send you more spam instead of shutting off all spam. This is called false advertising, no?
I don't believe in the concept of "false advertising." All advertising is an attempt in persuasion. Sometimes founded in truth, sometimes in a wish to believe, sometimes in outright deception. So? (If "false advertising" were a true crime, most of the world's religions would surely be shut down.)
If you want to take it further in to the land of the creatures of theory, who owns your email? Do you? If so, by right of ownership can you decide who isn't to send you email? You can certainly achieve this by filters. If the spamming scum says "I will stop if you ask me to" and you ask him to stop, but he doesn't, what rights have you got against him? What if he is using your email for commercial purposes without your consent? etc.....
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