hmm. I think a clueless mail administrator *should* have his head handed to him. Personally.
On 6/13/07, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nothing is wrong with the concept in general terms. My argument is that this > group is violating a basic trust principle by imposing their agenda through > this technical medium. Does their blacklist subscription ask the mail > administrator whether they agree with the political objective of the group? > Does it suggest to the mail admin that they ought to check with senior > management to see whether they think it is appropriate for their > organization to be directly supporting a political cause? What if, for > instance, a major corporation that does tens of millions of dollars of > business with Time Warner is blocking Time Warner's email? I think that > spells trouble for the clueless mail administrator who just wants to cut > down on spam being sent to his systems. > > I can easily see an escalation of this mess. Just consider what would happen > if someone put together a list of all of the companies that were blocking > Time Warner emails and notified all of Time Warner's customers that they > should complain to those companies and boycott their products. What happens > if people actually start boycotting these organizations because of this > email mess? The mail administrator gets his head handed to him by the CEO, > that's what happens. > > > > On 6/13/07, Dana wrote: > > > > ok well. > > > > mostly I have been viewing this thread as entertainment, but now I am > > curious. What exactly is wrong with using economic tools to push an agenda? > > It's been done many many times. Think bus boycotts in Alabama. Think tax > > policy. > > > > >blacklist is meant to do. They are engaging in a political fight using > > the > > >tools of economic warfare to try to push their agenda. > > > > > > > -- > --------------- > Robert Munn > www.funkymojo.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:236625 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
