On 14-Oct-2000 Matthias Mann wrote: > > No! Nevertheless this is the only way for me to advertise for my new > buisnes, cause i have not enought budget to pay for other possibilitys. And > i think i have the right to get my existence. And isn´t it all the same if > you see publicity on busstops, tv, websites or your mailbox? Who don´t like > commercial messages can look away and delete mails like that. I do the same. > Where is the problem?
It is not the same thing. If I visit a webpage and see advertising, I *chose* to visit the website and I understand that I might see such things. On the other hand, when someone sends me spam, I have no choice in the matter. All I can do is block the spammer's hosts/domains from sending me e-mail, and I can complain to the Internet provider of the spammer. Also, I can try to get the offending ISP's netblocks added to the RBL if they persist. Some of us get so much spam that simply deleting the spam by subject line is inefficient and annoying. Why do you think almost all spammers use bogus reply addresses and why do you think they relay their spam through other people's servers? It is because they KNOW that what they are doing is wrong and that it makes people angry. Otherwise, they would not mind telling us who they are (by giving us their valid e-mail address and using their ISP's mail server to send their spam). -- Andrew
