RE: ARGH! Please make it STOP!

There's Spam and there's advertising.  

I am perfectly happy to receive unsolicited e-mail from iSeries related
firms.  I usually read it and sometimes will even file it in my resources
folder. This is a very good source of information for me.  I'd love
receiving regular promotional mailings from Joe P or Brad S for example  - 
These guys are teaching me the things I want to know about the core of my
career.

On the other hand I don't need my debt consolidated, my penis enlarged nor
do I need to spy on my friends and neighbors.

The true spammers know all the ways that products like Spam Assasin works,
so why bother with Spam Assasin or products like that.  Keeping
under-the-covers spyware off your machine will do much more for you.
 
IMHO
 
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Friday, May 16, 2003 8:40:48 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: ARGH! Please make it STOP!
 
Joe Pluta wrote:
> Nope. I don't believe I should have to log onto a company's website to
> find their email address to send them an email to ask them to stop sending
> me
> unsolicited spam. IMO, it's a problem endemic to the industry and I'd
> rather stop it where I can control it. Which is why I've gotten
> SpamAssassin running. I will blacklist the domain and be done with it.
 
So you're willing to label an iSeries related company as spammers without 
giving them the benefit of the doubt?
 
I certainly agree that unsolicited commercial e-mail is a problem. But 
there's a definite difference between most of the dreck we all get and a 
company that lives or dies on its reputation. As I said before, all of my 
requests to be removed from the mailing lists of iSeries related companies 
have indeed been honored. If enough people express their concern over such 
unsolicited e-mails, perhaps the companies that send them will rethink 
their strategy. 
 
Put the shoe on the other foot. If your company was engaging in some 
questionable activity, wouldn't you want to know about it and be given the 
chance to correct it?
 
Regarding the problem of spam in general, there's not much you can do to 
prevent that. The best strategy is to not get your e-mail address onto the 
spammers' lists to begin with. That's easier said than done, though.
 
Cheers! Hans