What about all those people who have no control over their sig, hotmail /
yahoo allways add a sig to the bottom of every e-mail. People on the
internet have to put up with what we see, I dont like getting e-mails from
people who say if I forward the e-mail 10,000 times then bill gates will
come down from the sky and give me a 1000 dollars. But we get them and we
trash them.
The internet is a mass marketing machine, sites like yahoo and zdnet are
just adds. Nothing more. It seems that some of that jumps from the http
protocol to smtp on occasion.
Sorry but after being on the web so long and advertising creeping up on us I
got used to it. I dont even read the sigs half the time
Carlo
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100% sig free.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aussie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] [OT] Alleged spam
| Date sent: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:58:48 +1100 (EST)
| From: Andrew Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: [SLUG] [OT] Alleged spam
|
| > 1. You are trying to deceive people by placing a referral to your
| > account on "getpaid4.com".
|
| Where is the deception? I make it quite clear that I am promoting
| GetPaid in my signature. Having a referral URL for that same program
| would hardly be regarded as deception.
|
| > 2. "GetPaid4" is targetted at Microsoft Windows audiences.
|
| True, but I don't post exclusively post to this mailing list. I don't
| know about others, but I have to earn my living also dealing with
| Windows. I live in a small town where Linux is barely even heard of,
| not in the middle of Sydney where *nix jobs are a dime a dozen and the
| pay is $50k+ a year. I would love to have an income 1/4 that rate, and
| before anyone suggests moving, I not able to for a while.
|
| > I am strictly against blatant abuse of the Internet for advertising, and
| > this kind of thing is even worse.
|
| I fail to see how placing advertising in a signature can be regarded as
| "blatant abuse" unless the post contains nothing significant or is
| unsolicited in the first place. I asked a legitimate question that I
| was unable to answer myself, the fact that I left my normal signature
| on for the post to this list should NOT mean I abused the internet.
|
| > Without using extreme profanity in this message I can say little more
| > than please remove this from your e-mail sig.
|
| Done. No further signatures will be sent to this list.
|
| > If not, I will be sure to contact GetPaid4 and mention your name.
|
| What's this? Ask nicely and then threaten to report me before I can
respond? How charming!
|
| > (From the GetPaid4 FAQ)
| >
| > "Can I contact people I do not know that haven't specifically requested
| > me to contact them in regards to the program?
|
| Have I contacted anyone on this list specifically regarding the
| program? I have asked a legitimate question, one that I have not been
| able to answer through my normal means, I have NOT sent email to the
| list for the sole purpose of advertising GetPaid.
|
| > No -- Spamming of ANY sort (Usenet, e-mail, ICQ/AIM, etc.) is NOT
| > TOLERATED. If any member is caught spamming, their account will be
| > terminated. You can only contact people that you know either personally
| > or professionally. Contacting people that you don't know is considered
| > spamming. Spammers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
| > We do NOT tolerate spamming of any kind!!!!"
|
| Just FYI, I have just emailed GetPaid in regards to using a signature
| to advertise their program and I am awaiting their response. Although I
| have no way of knowing, I suspect they may decide that using a
| signature advert does NOT consitute spamming unless the original email
| was unsolicited.
| If that is the case, will I still be spamming? If you say I am, you are
| inferring that my posts are unsolicited and unwanted? If that is the
| case, I will promptly unsubscribe from this list.
|
| Aussie (sig removed)
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