[65515] in Cypherpunks
Re: who can count?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (snow)
Mon Sep 16 00:19:16 1996
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 18:37:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
To: HipCrime <robert@precipice.v-site.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3238B18E.7211@precipice.v-site.net>
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, HipCrime wrote:
> > No, this b.s. is more like having someone put a dead skunk in my
> > mailbox, with no return address, trying to prevent me from sending
> > them 100 dead skunks as a return favor. And about as welcome.
> 100 dead skunks in exchange for ONE is exactly what this discussion
> is all about. You CypherWIMPS just love over-kill. EmailRobot sent
> ONE message to EACH address. Are you guys so unskilled in arithmetic
> to understand the difference between 1 and 100?
> One message is NOT spam, 100 messages to a single box IS spamming.
One mesage sent to 100 addresses, unsoliciated IS spam. One message
sent to One address isn't. It IS still junk mail.
Overkill is a time honored concept for making sure the job is done.
Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com
