Complaints about spam are TRUE theft of services
On or About 19 Mar 98 at 14:27, Ian Briggs wrote:
Spamming is an 'imaginary' felony, as are anonymity and encryption.
No, its actually theft of services.
No, actually your complaints about spam are TRUE theft of services. In an article that I posted to this list last year it says the following: Mailing-list spammers Email spam is the favorite gripe of most Netizens, excepting the spammers. Congress is considering legislation [25] to limit the practice of sending unwanted commercial email in bulk. Not everyone thinks this is a good idea. See [26] for a thread from an ongoing debate on Declan McCullagh's fight-censorship mailing list. George Matyjewicz <mosaic1 at ix dot netcom dot com> did a modest experiment on a week's worth of his email -- he is on 56 mailing lists and gets around 200 messages a day -- to gauge how widespread the problem actually is. Matyjewicz posted these results: Total messages...1,354...193.4 Spam messages.......10.......1.4.....< 1 % Spam complaints....189.......27.0.....14 % This article is at: http://206.215.211.222/archive/0108.html Spam is not crime, it's commerce. Shut up and hit that delete key, you fucktard. Thanks. =-=-=-=-=-=- Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://ross.adnetsol.com Voice: (408) 259-2795
At 03:27 PM 3/20/98 -0700, Ross Wright wrote:
No, actually your complaints about spam are TRUE theft of services.
[Anecdotes about somebody receiving more complaints about spam
If you're a spammer, you're in no position to complain. than actual spam.] Complaints about spam are free speech, and by encouraging Internet providers to increase the size of their networks, they're obviously commerce :-) Anecdotes are just anecdotes; except during the occasional flame war about spam, I generally receive a lot more spam than complaints. And at least the complaints have some creative thought behind them, unlike the spam... Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
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