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  • #16
    No.. here is what a judge of true Solomonic wisdom would do.. find plaintiff and defendants alike guilty of harassment by spam, the punishment to be forfeiture of all monies gained from this activity by all parties. The anti-spammers, of course, didn't make anything to forfeit..

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    • #17
      Of course, what that anti-spammers are doing isn't spam. In the real world, all of these mailings are paid for by the sender. With e-mail, <B>you</B> are paying for the crap they send you. They don't pay for the bandwidth, you do. And since between one-half to two-thirds of all e-mail is spam, that's a lot of crap out there taking your time, bandwidth, and money.

      Imagine you had to give the postman 37 cents every time some junk mail hit your post box.
      Last edited by Wombat; 7 December 2002, 01:53.
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      • #18
        That would probably put snail mail spammers on WHO list of endangered species
        If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

        Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Wombat
          Of course, what that anti-spammers are doing isn't spam. In the real world, all of these mailings are paid for by the sender. With e-mail, <B>you</B> are paying for the crap they send you. They don't pay for the bandwidth, you do. And since between one-half to two-thirds of all e-mail is spam, that's a lot of crap out there taking your time, bandwidth, and money.

          Imagine you had to give the postman 37 cents every time some junk mail hit your post box.
          Well, I don't think it's QUITE like that, because...
          1-it takes bandwidth to SEND spam
          2-I don't pay for bandwidth, packet for packet, I pay for a fixed amount for my bitrate
          3-Regardless, I'm really glad they did that to him.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Kooldino
            Well, I don't think it's QUITE like that, because...
            1-it takes bandwidth to SEND spam
            Nope, not really. One e-mail, tons of addresses. The system propagates it from there.
            2-I don't pay for bandwidth, packet for packet, I pay for a fixed amount for my bitrate
            Your ISP pays per packet. If they have to buy more packets, guess who they pass that cost along to?
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            • #21
              That is just news to make you smile.
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