[13164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dannyman)
Wed Oct 29 23:57:09 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 22:43:46 -0600
From: Dannyman <djhoward@uiuc.edu>
To: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0xQmPC-00076xC@most.weird.com>; from Greg A. Woods on Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 11:40:26PM -0500
On Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 11:40:26PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> A popular, but unfortunately all too untrue fallacy. Bulk snail-mail
> costs us all on the less tangible side. Here in Canada our postal
> service would like us to believe that bulk mail subsidises the cost of
> first class mail, but in the opinions of many the savings are hardly
> worth those less tangible costs that might affect us much deeper than
> just our pocket books.
We have the same theory here that it subsidizes first class stuff. I don't
mind it so much, coz it's free paper, and I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I
recycle or burn it. :)
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