[80141] in Cypherpunks
Re: Spam IS Free Speech
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Osborne)
Thu May 15 11:45:00 1997
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 10:46:31 -0400
To: "Ross Wright" <rwright@adnetsol.com>
From: Rick Osborne <osborne@gateway.grumman.com>
Cc: cypherpunks mailing list <cypherpunks@algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199705142339.QAA23731@adnetsol.adnetsol.com>
Reply-To: Rick Osborne <osborne@gateway.grumman.com>
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>you see what I am saying about a web page being a yellow
>pages ad, right?
Oh yes, I agree. I just don't agree that posting to usenet is asking for
spam. I post to usenet to get valid responses to my questions (or to
respond myself), not find out what the latest get rich kwik scheme is.
>Please, a few megs between cyber-clients? No harm no foul. You get
>more megs of crap just from this list! I'd bet real money on that!
Very true. *However*, imagine this scenario: I post to Usenet regularly
using a work email address. I am allowed by the company to do this as long
as the post is work-related. Some spammer snatches my email address and
starts to send me email about some "Hot-n-wet" 900 number. The filters on
the corporate mail catch this and management thinks that I'm soliciting
these ads. I get formally reprimanded for it, which goes on my permanent
record. The spammers have just made a major dent in my career and if it
continues to happen, I could lose my job. It doesn't matter to Management
that I didn't solicit these emails, they just know that its getting in my
inbox. What am I supposed to do then?
>One Meg Per One Meg. Equal and fair.
How big is an arp paket? This could get interesting the next time someone
sends me an attachment.
Speaking of which, on a related note, am I allowed to spam-bomb MS Exchange
idiots who send RTF attachments with their email. Now *that* could get
fun. :)
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