On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote: > I´m very sorry! > > In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters > with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for > emails.
It is also legal in Brazil, which doesn't mean that you would not:
1. Be hated for doing it.
2. Risk people seeking you out to beat the life out of you for sendig
spam.
3. Risk people seeking the business you advertised to do a LOT of loud
complaining and probably blacklist it, and make sure the owner of said
business want your a** fried for sending spam with its name (and
possibly taking his money).
4. Risk people hacking your computer with the explicit intent of doing
you the worst possible amount of damage, because they are pissed at
you.
Get it? Yes, it is legal. No, it is NOT accepted as good citizen behaviour.
A spammer is about as liked as someone who goes around at night throwing
heavy bricks at other people's windows.
If you annoy people enough, you WILL be tracked down (there is NO such a
thing as a 'untrackable email'), and you might very well be punished in very
harsh ways. *Nobody* likes spammers, except _maybe_ other spammers
themselves.
BTW, just so that you know, to be as untrackable as it gets when sending
bulk mail you need to violate at least one criminal law in Brazil. You risk
getting some time in jail or a very heavy fine if you're lucky AND it is the
first time you're convicted in life. I imagine it's about the same in
Germany.
You want to send spam because "it is legal"? Fine, do it. But do it in the
open as the law (probably -- after all, I don't know german law) requires,
using your real email address. Just don't expect people to like it.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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