From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 08:42:08 -0800 (PST)
To: <cypherpunks@toad.com>
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On 3/21/98 2:42 AM, Anonymous (anon@anon.efga.org)  passed this wisdom:

>Life itself is a double-edged sword. To compete with the shotgun 
>spammers, those who wish to target an audience which is likely to 
>have a specific interest in their product or cause have need of a 
>database which will help them to categorize the interests of those 
>who traverse the <WWW.> In doing so, they run the risk of being 
>lumped in with those who use the same technology to monitor the 
>same users in order to work against their self-interest.  

 Exactly, to lump all mass emailers into one homogenous category is all
wrong. I subscribe to a list people running Mac Performa series 
PowerPCs (almost all PPC 603/e)/v). We recently had someone who had
apparently subscribed to the list and lurked and built up a mailing list
of posters to the list to whom he later sent a solicitation ... it was
quite appropriate and as targetted as you can get, active participants
in a highly specific group ... you shopuld have heard the weeping an
gnashing of teeth ... the bandwidth comsumed by compliants was a
thousand fold greater than the solicitation itself!

 SPAM is the boogeyman of the hour. Yes there are bad spammers out there
and a modest knowledge of your mail client will handle 95% of them
straight to File 13, but I really do want to receive many of the
solicitations I get, I actually do buy things ...

 Just my .02

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