[13180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ryan)
Thu Oct 30 05:16:36 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:01:25 GMT
To: Dannyman <djhoward@uiuc.edu>
From: Matt Ryan <matt@planet.net.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: matt@planet.net.uk
In-Reply-To: <19971029154001.57617@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu>
>
> Actually, Karl would be the first to point out that often spammers don't pay
> .. they hook up for their free trial period and get the boot a few days
> later.
>
Then companies need to look at wether free trial accounts should be able to
send email. I think most trial are more useful to test connectivity, try the
chat rooms etc. How many need email?
>
> The whole point of spam being wrong is that since it is a cooperative
> process, it costs the recipient to receive it. (Contrast this to bulk postal
> mail, which only costs the sender anything.)
>
I would guess that the thousands (millions) of tonnes of junk mail cost us
nothing to put into landfill sites, or incinerate...
Matt.
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