Re: *** ADMIN: Spam

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, Spam/UCE is not okay.  If I want the e-mail, I will ask for it.

I am in a few Opt-In mail lists, and accept the e-mail, because I asked for 
them.  And I know that the mail they send me will be related to something I am 
interested in hearing about.  If I don't want to hear about it, I don't Opt-in.

Anything else I get that I did not request is a waste of time.

Consider my boss, got spam, did the old, "Remove" reply.  They now get 
*thousands* of e-mails in their in box when they check their mail.  Makes the 
account next to worthless, when you are searching through 999 spam messages for 
the one real e-mail you wanted that someone said they sent you a week ago.

Sure, yours is just one of those thousand, and I'm sure they all though, one 
little UCE isn't going to hurt anyone...

As for myself, I receive next to no Spam at this e-mail address (thanks David!) 
which is what makes it so valuable.

If I do request e-mail from a company I will usually use my Spam account, a 
Yahoo account I use when I have to give an e-mail and don't trust the sender to 
not sell my e-mail or spam me.

Regards,

Jim Langston

From: midrange-l@midrange.com

As an employee of a small software development company, I find that
reporting "spam" merchants to be a scary proposal, an extreme
over-reaction. I, for one, being a member of this list, have made it _very_
clear to our sales folk, that harvesting this list is frowned on and would
result in bad will. AFAIK, no one here has done this. But other companies
have. We are, many of us, limited in resources. Do you _really_ want to
_punish_ this practice, committed by a fairly small group, distributed to a
fairly small audience? This is _not_ coming from porn merchants, now, is it?

Like any filtering software, anti-spam software either is going to miss a
lot, or is going to cause you to miss something you want to see. The true
control is your DEL key - set up alternate email addresses, if not too
costly. You can't keep it all away. Just like you can't completely
eliminate junk mail in your mailbox, so toss it in the trash.

Regards

Vern