Re: Spammers and web hosting

And for those of us in countries such as the UK, where telephony charges are
VERY high; it is outrageous to have to endure long mail downloads only to
find a bunch of unsolicited get-rich-quick offers, and sometimes worse. Any
of you who harvest IP addresses then consider it perfectly ok to "direct
mail" people in this way are 110% WRONG.

Andrew Moore
Director,
single-click world wide web solutions
www.single-click.com


>Scott,
>
>I think you are missing the point.  With "postal spam", the advertiser
>pays to send it to you.  With e-mail spam, everyone but the advertiser
>pays.  Contrary to popular belief, the Internet is not free, someone has
>to pay for all of the resources used.  Spammers take advantage of this,
>they let all of the ISP's pay the bills for resources consumed to send
>their spam.  This is even worse than bulk faxing since the spammers don't
>even pay long distance charges as they would if they attempted to bulk fax
>the entire world.
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