[65258] in Cypherpunks
Re: Nonsense, absolute nonsense... [Fwd: HipCrime and Spam]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross Wright)
Wed Sep 11 23:03:20 1996
From: "Ross Wright" <rwright@adnetsol.com>
To: na673130@anon.penet.fi, Andy Dustman <andy@CCMSD.chem.uga.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:50:27 -0800
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, remailer-operators@c2.org
Sirs:
I must agree that having a website invites unsolicited e-mail, if
only to comment that people have seen the site. I send unsolicited
e-mail to website owners as part of my marketing plan.
On Or About: 11 Sep 96 at 21:34, Andy Dustman wrote:
> You're sending out messages, inviting people to visit your web site, but
> you're using anonymous remailers because... you don't want people to know
> who you are? Then why invite them to your site (or even have a site)?
That's what makes it smell fishy. When I send unsolicited e-mail I
give up the whole deal: phone number and all. If someone complains,
I make great effort to never contact that person again. Either you
want people to know who you are or you don't.
> Which is precisely what you're doing: Sending someone e-mail
> costs them time and it often costs them money.
As I said having a website invites comments. It's like being a
public figure. In effect you are publishing your e-mail address.
> 4) It's giving us a bad
> rap, man, and that's the *last* thing the remailer net needs now.
> The remailers of the world don't exist
> to provide non-anonymous anonymous advertising, which you could do just as
> well on your own sending forged e-mail headers from netcom.
Just like all the seedy low life multi-level-marketing jerks! No
need to use a remailer for that.
Just 2 cents worth.
Ross
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