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steve@tropheus.demon.co.uk (Stephen Wolstenholme) wrote:

>On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:28:39 +0800, James.Hsieh@mail.com (James Hsieh)
>wrote:
>
>>Is there any one knows any software can do this:
>>1.go to any newsgroups you select and download all the E-Mail 
>>address in that newsgroup!
>>2.Let you E-Mail to all the address above!And everybody thought 
>>you mail a personal E-mail direct to him!
>> 
>Such software does exist but it's the type used to send those
>painfully obvious email promotions which most people just delete. You
>know the ones like "I noticed your post to ... and thought you may
>like...".
>
Yes, and its not only a giant pain in the modem to get 20 to 30 of
these a week, but against most providers and backbone networks
acceptible use policy. When you send a mass-mailing, the cost for
transmitting and storing the articles is shifted to the recipient's
providers, and results in larger capital costs (and hence higher user
access charges). 

No one has a problem with advertising on the World Wide Web, since
you're paying for that web page. I am paying for my EMail and I very
much do NOT want your commercial messages in it.

Oh, and I have also gotten *very* good at deciphering EMail headers,
and have contributed to shutting down at least three spammers that I
know of...so think twice before you do something that gets a lot of
people angry.