[13165] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorn Hetzel)
Thu Oct 30 00:01:34 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 23:53:26 -0500
From: Dorn Hetzel <dorn@atl.eni.net>
To: Dannyman <djhoward@uiuc.edu>
Cc: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971029224346.09160@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu>; from Dannyman on Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 10:43:46PM -0600
If I had to write the Post Office a monthly check to bring my junkmail,
I would be considerably less amused when I burn it...
On Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 10:43:46PM -0600, Dannyman wrote:
> 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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