I know I'm not making any friends here - but you would say that you're
selling a product that filters mail.
Out of interest what is your source for those stats.
Don't get me wrong I think spamming of all kinds is 100% wrong. I just
believe that blocking email is wrong.
The Question is: Without being the recipient, how do you know something is
spam unless you are the recipient?
Can anyone actually pin down a common denominator?
Barry
----- Original Message -----
From: R. Scott Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ORBS - blacklist not the answer
>
> >I can only speak for myself but I like to make my own choices. Spam is a
> >nuisance but all I have to do is hit delete and it's gone
>
> With 18 billions spams sent a year, and an estimate of 4 seconds to
> determine that an E-mail is spam and delete it, you would need over 6,000
> people working full time to delete all the spam that is sent in a year.
>
> Imagine if people volunteered an extra 800,000 hours of their time a year
> to good causes?
>
> >It is fundamentally wrong for somebody other than a mail recipient to
decide
> >whether the mail recipient should or shouldn't receive an email.
>
> Yes. But it is also fundamentally wrong for someone to make you pay to
> read their message, without your permission. If just 10% of the mail that
> you receive is spam, that means that about 10% of the costs associated
with
> E-mail (cost of installing and maintaining the mail server, bandwidth,
> etc.) is spent to allow those spammers to spam you. You are paying the
> spammer to send you mail.
>
> It's what is called "The lesser of two evils". Each person needs to
decide
> for himself which he considers worse.
>
> -Scott
>
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