Re: Junk Mail

Andrew D. Taylor (af883@freenet.carleton.ca)
Sun, 26 Jan 1997 15:09:02 -0500 (EST)

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>Spammer's opt-out schemes have nothing to do with curbing spam. It's just
>an obfuscation, and a way of getting the clueless to support the spammer's
>contention that we should just tolerate it. Once unsolicted bulk e-mail
>is established as acceptable net-behavior there will be an explosion of it
>as many more will do it. Even if some of them collect "remove requests"
>many of them won't, and you'll have less argument against spamming.
>Remember, the spammer is in this because they believe they can get
>something for nothing. You can't expect them to regulate themselves. The
>whole opt-out scam is just a smoke screen.

And it doesn't help when "The National Association of Direct E-mail
Marketers" (well, it's something like that) exists, pushing the notion that
by the existance of your e-mail address on a commercial web site, you have
granted permission to recive such e-mail and it is no longer solicited.
But wait a second, aren't DejaNews and Whowhere.com commercial sites? Give
me a break.

Now I was checking out some of the sites on Yahoo's Junk E-mail page and
came across the following.

----include text

Broadcast Fax and Junk Email is illegal. Under United States Public Law
103-414 Section 303(a)(11), it is unlawful "to use any telephone facsimile
machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement."

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