On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Ross Wright wrote:
On Or About 20 Aug 96, 18:09, Rich Graves wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Vipul Ved Prakash wrote:
I don't know if there has been much discussion on the ethics of spamming here? Is spamming free speech?
Yes.
So is mailbombing the motherfucker, or more productively, virtually picketing his ISP until they kick him off for net abuse
That is the kind of self righteous crap that gives me the creeps!!!
From your earlier message, though, describing the "spamming" you do, I really don't see you as needing deterrence. When I hear "spam" I think of
Good. That's called deterrence.* The market decides. the Jeff Slaton/Vernon Hale/Crazy Kev/John Reese variety of carpet-bombing both Usenet and millions of email addresses indiscriminately. OTOH, if you really target your audience well, especially if a human and not a bot is in charge of selecting prospects, then I'd call that "cold calling," not "spamming." Unsolicited email is moderately annoying, but I don't think it's anything to complain about. I filter all mail from unknown addresses anyway. * - The cool thing about this kind of deterrence is, since you're only defending virtual turf, you can sabre-rattle to your heart's content without worrying about having to actually follow through. -rich