Re: SPAM

At 06:01 PM 06/14/00, you wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Martin T. Hugo wrote:
>
> > Well, everyone hates spam but hey, we all get tons of snail mail spam and
> > I'll bet nobody writes the company or the post office about it (well, maybe
> > a few with nothing better to do<g>).  We just trash it!  So just do the 
> same
> > with UCE and forget about it.
>[...]
> > I just hit delete and get on with my life.
> >
> > just my $.02
>
>And that's the difference between spam and junk (snail-)mail.  It's _your_
>$.02 and not the sender's.
>
>What do you think your (snail-)mailbox and your post office would look
>like if the junk mailers could send millions of pieces of junk mail
>without spending a penny on materials or postage?  And if your postage
>rates doubled in order to subsidize the continued free junk mail traffic,
>what would your opinion be then?

Also, the time spent dealing with spam is not negligible.  It can take time 
to separate the wheat from the chaff, and I get 200-300 spam messages a week.


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Chuck Upsdell
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