[linux_general] RE: [ale] spam

[Greg]

yes, the amount of money, etc might be obscene, but quite honestly, I don't
think it is as costly as many would have you believe.  For instance, it just
causes you and I the time it takes to push a button to get rid of it.  Total
cost: 1 - 5 seconds.  I pay a single monthly fee for bandwidth.  Electrons
are not like water and gas - once the infrastructure is up, it is irrelevant
whether I get 1 bit or 10 GB of data.  Unlike the mail, it does not end up
polluting the world or costing me $$ to hire someone to cart it off.  And I
seriously doubt whether if spam were to disappear that there would be mass
layoffs in the IT industry due to lost "bandwidth".

Also, one cannot prevent businesses from advertising. It is *their* time,
$$, etc that is being wasted.  I dunno, I am kind of ambivalent about it
since I don't mess with it as much as I once did.  It's like anything else,
unless you make the punishment person and not worth the effort it will be
here for sometime.  Only since it is a global problem, it requires a global
solution.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Marvin
> Dickens
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 1:48 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [linux_general] RE: [ale] spam
>
>
> On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 01:21, Greg wrote:
> Yeah. I know the things you recommend slows spam down, but it does not
> stop it. Further, the burden is on you (Me and everyone else) as is
> evident from the long list of items you having going. Just so you know,
> I never give out my email addresses to *anyone* that I do not want email
> from. I'm careful. OTOH, the email addresses I have, I have had for
> years. One the the addresses (I have 3) I've had since 1992: The longer
> you have an address, the more likely it gets spammed.
>
> The spam I get really does not bother me. It all ends up in my spam
> collector and with the convenient push of a button in a php script, it's
> dumped. The point I'm making is the economic cost. From providers to
> users. In terms of time, equipment, bandwidth, man power, lost
> opportunity and utlimately, money, this is obscene.
>
> Best
>
> M. Dickens
>
>
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