slashdot is full of antis

i wouldnt trust a source like that

try it and see by yourself

I dont.. Anyone who does that is a complete idiot.

you are so right
95% of the people talking about the bulkmailing industry doesnt have a fucking clue about what they are talking, its liek the security industry in worst

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thank you.

you are speaking to who ?

The difference between junk mail in your mail box and spam in your inbox is that the US Goverment makes money off of it. If the Goverment could make money off of spam it would be prefectly legal.

Think abot all of the fucking trees kill to send junk mail. What a waste.

Having worked in managment in a large IT department, I can tell you first hand the costs associated with spam are not negligable.

I'd have to say one of the major differences is the quantity. I dont get 1000's of flyers everyday. but I get 1000's of spam email a day.

i can opt in for non addressed mail and I won't get any.

i also don't get 5000 sail mail spams a day.....when is something considered out of controll?

50 mad postal workers



this is one of those offline vegas conversations. i have had this discussion with more people than god knows.

been down this road with the channels that be. nothing will stop usps from doing it. i basically chop it up as technology to market

usps = since before we had cars.
internet = since we had michael jackson. LMAO.

in 20 years spam will be looked at like junkmail because they will finally realize that they can't regulate it.

matter of time.

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Sometimes you blast me away with your simplicity. Please tell me this is not a serious question.

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i don't think that was the point he was getting at, spam emails without removes and ones who spam the same addresses over and over without honoring removes are more likely to have their landing pages DDOS'ed. the more complaints a sponsor gets, the more likely you are to be termed. most sponsors demand that you download their remove list and clean your lists against it before you send.

in todays modern world, it doesn't really cost the end user anything. sure there are some countries in eastern europe that still pay by the meg or minute or whatever but who would mail them anyhow? they are poor.

do you have any idea how much money spam assassin guys have made off spam? not to mention all the other kinds of filters and shit to block spam, its a million dollar industry in itself.

im not really trying to defend spam but so many are so misinformed.

oh yeah and if you're gonna opt-out, don't expect it to be instantaneous, give it a week or 2 and i bet you will see some of the same emails gone.

and btw, 1 minute edit limit sucks balls.

Sounds like someone has done some mailing before....

From a business point of view, the big difference is dirrect mail is good for the goverment, ie the post office benifits from stamps. Spam is only good for the spammers, and hurts the other businesses, ie the ISP's and it's customers