CDR: Re: FW: BLOCK: AT&T signs bulk hosting contract with spammers

[Tom Vogt]

Kevin Elliott wrote:
> You know, I don't like spammers any more than the next guy, but come
> on.  Unethical?  we're not talking genocide and it's not like it
> cause significant (heck, even measurable) harm.

as a matter of fact, it does. the quantity of it, you know. if your 1
mio spam mails cause every receipient half a sec (on average) to
discard, you've just wasted roughly a week of worktime.

then again, 90% of your receipients will most likely waste much more
time every evening *willingly* subjecting themselves to advertisement
(and a little entertainment between the spots) on tv anyways.