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In <samp2@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:

>frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) writes:

>>> I publish a newsletter about fractals called Amygdala (29 issues so 
>>> far) which you may be interested in.
[...]
>I really appreciate your posting that ad.  I'm nuts about fractals and read
>whatever I can on the subject.  I'll be subscribing just as soon as I 
>get the full text of the ad from that fellow.

>See how useful net.advertising is?  Even when you don't mean to?

John, John, John.  I usually agree with you on things, but this is too far.

You don't PAY for other folks to send you junk paper mail -- they do. 
You don't PAY for teleslime to call you up on the phone at all hours
and pitch their latest brand of snake oil -- THEY DO.  (And handsomely, too,
if they happen to call me more than once.... can you say, using a 
common carrier for harrassment?)

Those who have to PAY for their news and mail (including YOUR CUSTOMERS) have
every right to be upset when Tweedle-dee out in la-la land sends them junk
e-mail that *they*, the recipients, have to PAY for.  That's a fact.  I'll go
one further, though, and opine that anyone@dixie.com has a right to be upset
at one John deArmond for ENCOURAGING behaviour that has the potential to
*increase his revenues* by increasing the amount of download time charged on
his machine... without his having spent a dime.  Well, TANSTAAFL.

Keep your laws off my body, keep your hands off my guns, and keep your
junk e-mail off the net.  That's what biz.* is for.

Glenn R. Stone (glenns@eas.gatech.edu)
these opinions are MINE, and you can't have them.