Re: Spammers and web hosting

    If you actually sit down and think about it, there is absolutely nothing
wrong with Spam!  The simple concept of direct mail has been going on for
years.  You sign up for something, and next thing you know you are getting a
mail box full of creative flyers, brochures and postcards.  Do you ever once
stop to think of how many trees it takes 1,000 business to produce a 100,000
recipient direct postal mailing?  What about the land fill space after those
100,000,000 mailings?  Now look at the dreaded "Spam"  It takes a matter of
a couple seconds to click the send button, maybe a couple minutes to send
those100,000,000 flyers.  Now each recipient, has the choicen to read it or
throw it away?  If they choose to throw it away, where is the waste?  Where
is the expense?  The Internet was formed, to allow people to communicate
more effectively, and I feel not only did it do that, but it can be a
tremendous resource for our future!

    Don't get me wrong - I am not a tree hugger, I have a four year old son!
I know I will not be here for ever, but he has at least another 80-90 years
here!  With the rate we are going, what does he have to look forward to!

Scott Piegdon
President
Network Maintenance Inc.
www.networkmaintenance.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Rachel Hartman <rhartman(at)io.com>
To: Majordomo(at)mail.hwg.org <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 9:24 PM
Subject: Spammers and web hosting


> As I have all too frequently, I received some spam earlier today, and I
> reported it to the hosting service providing their web site.  Frankly, all
> I expected was a form letter either acknowledging the complaint or a form
> letter stating that the account had been terminated.
>
> Instead I got a nastily worded response informing me that I was a) stupid
> for not verifying that their account had been yanked and b) a spammer
> myself for sending e-mail to the hosting company about the first spam.
>
> I won't name the hosting company here, but if anyone ever asks me about
> them and their customer service, I'll know what to say.  I understand that
> spam is a problem, but out-and-out bitchery is a hellova way to handle
> business correspondence.
>
> Has anyone else had a similar problem when reporting spam?
>
> Rachel Hartman
> --------------------------------------------
> Rachel R. Hartman, Co-Owner
> Hartman WebWrights - http://www.hww.com (512) 989-7844
> Affordable, hand-crafted web pages for your company's needs
>
>
>

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