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Re: Can anaything be done about "#1 BULK EMAIL LOADER IN THE COUNTRY" ???

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From: Steve Sobol
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:00
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Stan Brown (stbrown@nacs.net) wrote:

: Action by Congress is needed to extend us protection against junk emails.
: But I fear that, to some extent, this is something we're going to have to 
: learn to live with, just like advertisements on the supposedly 
: commercial-free PBS and NPR.

That's rather like comparing apples to oranges. :) The public television
and radio endorsments of various program sponsors doesn't even count as 
advertising... not anywhere near as intrusive, and only run between programs. 
:)

I have a feeling that if someone at a remote site with no options for
flat-rate billing for e-mail gets bombed, they may have a case. Others of
us might not.

-- 
Steve Sobol, Cleveland, OH    Tech Support/Customer Service, NACS.NET
 -also-     Win 95 Programmer and Head Geek, North Shore Technologies
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From: sjsobol@nacs.net (Steve Sobol)
Subject: Re: Can anaything be done about  "#1 BULK EMAIL LOADER IN THE COUNTRY"  ???
Date: 1996/10/25
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