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casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:

>Whether or not it is illegal to send out junk mail, writing a program
>to collect address from Usenet will only costs a few man-minutes.
>Sending a mass mailing to those people costs only a few man-minutes as well
>(and many computer hours). It's too cheap/easy to allow and of
>questionable legality.

No question regarding the legality in the US.  Leaf countries that
choose to disagree are responsible for doing their own filtering.

>Third, one junk message can easily be deleted, but what if we allow this?

In the immortal words  of Tonto, "What's this 'we' shit, whiteman?"  In 
point of fact, there is nothing "we" or any other entity can do about it
other than bitch and pull the kinds of petty, childish stunts described
by Todd such as mailing the man pages.  Junk email is here to stay
just like paper email is.  The ONLY effective thing you can do about
it is to ignore it so that it becomes an unsuccessful marketing technique.

>How long before we get hundreds of junk mail messages each day? Each
>from a different address/with a different subject. I've better
>things to do than collect the few interresting ones from the
>hundreds of unwanted messages. 

Emminent death of the Internet is at hand.  *sigh*  Hundreds?  Really?
What an imagination.

>The fourth reason is the fact that many people pay for the e-mail they
>receive. The paper junk mail I get comes free of charge, the e-mail
>junk does not.

My heart's bleeding.  I believe these same people pay for their news
including all the bitching that has gone on regarding this topic.  The
volume of which has grossly exceed that of the junk mail.  I believe
these underpriviledged people who have to pay also pay for non-junk-but-
unsolicited mail, flame response mail, bounced mail and so on.  Like I
said, my heart bleeds.

John

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