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Article #1528Re: DID YOU KNOW...how to squelch Mr. Spalthoff
From: Geoffrey Leach
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:00
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helbig@ix.netcom.com(Sandra D.Helbig) writes:
>Come off it. Commercial endeavors pay the bills. Spamming pays your
>salary. Spam is good. Spam is great. The vast majority of people on
>the web are engaged in for profit endeavors. You would recognize this
>too if you had any real world experience outside your corporate
>culture. These people who are spamming have more going for them than
>you ever will.
Such nonsense. Sigh.
First. Unsolicited telephone solicitation (referred to as "spam" in
the post) is frowned upon by the FTC. Callres are _required_ to
cease calling you if you request them to. They can be prosecuted
for not doing so.
Second. Unsolicited commercial email and similar postings to newsgroups
do not "pay the freight". They are, in factm theft of system resources
by the poster. Their cost to all parts of the Internet _other_ that the poster
is considerable. On to of that, many, like myself, have a committment
never to patronize a company that engages in such practices.
--
Geoffrey Leach C/C++/X11/Motif Implementation
geoff@netcom.com Mountain Ranch Software
12846 Whiskey Slide Road
Mountain Ranch CA 95246-0336
209-754-1869
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