On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 02:42:01PM -0600, Tony Despain wrote: > _________________________________________________________________ > FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar ? get it now! > http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/
A couple of questions. 1) How is this not spam? By spam, I mean ``unsolicited bulk email''. These advertisements are certainly unsolicited, and they are delivered in bulk (although in a clever way, as tags on the bottom of millions of potentially relevant emails; Microsoft is employing Hotmail users as extremely efficient circumventors of spam filters). Why is there such a conspicuous lack of outcry against this sort of abuse on this mailing list? The UUG's network and computing resources, and (furthermore) mine, do *not* constitute Microsoft's personal advertising medium. Their advertisements are *not* welcome in my inbox. 2) Is the ``onm00200415ave'' portion of the URL a dynamically generated identifier that links visits with the sender of the email? That would be a clandestine way of building a dossier of relationships between MSN users and their friends and associates... Mike (about ready to /dev/null any and all [From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] messages)
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