1996-08-21 - Re: Spamming (Good or Bad?)

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From: “Ross Wright” <rwright@adnetsol.com>
To: jim@ACM.ORG
Message Hash: 5a0ec846b0d9ed30f6d043ef3c48c9a04c0c111caadfbf339dbcd714ce69f09b
Message ID: <199608210044.RAA02892@adnetsol.adnetsol.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-08-21 06:01:53 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:01:53 +0800

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From: "Ross Wright" <rwright@adnetsol.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:01:53 +0800
To: jim@ACM.ORG
Subject: Re: Spamming (Good or Bad?)
Message-ID: <199608210044.RAA02892@adnetsol.adnetsol.com>
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On Or About 20 Aug 96, 16:23, Jim Gillogly wrote:
> 
> Vipul Ved Prakash <vipul@pobox.com> writes:
> >I don't know if there has been much discussion on the ethics of
> >spamming here? Is spamming free speech? 
> 

> I oppose spamming because it's rude and inefficient, lowering the
> S/N everywhere it happens.  Market droids

Market Droids????  As a salesman I take offence at this slur.

> favor it because it's
> cheap, and no matter how many people they piss off bigtime, they
> make some sales.

Even make sales to people who are pissed off at first...

Ross

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