Re: email or quality information?

Cliff Kurtzman (cliff.kurtzman_at_tenagra.com)
Sun, 7 Jul 1996 00:17:05 -0500

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Peter Hartley <hartley_at_shop.hartley.on.ca> writes:

>But surely this is far less annoying than having to sift through the average
>half a ton of junk mail delivered to your snail-mail address each year. At
>least you can dump it with a mouse-click, no trees are consumed, the amount
>of pollution created is minimal compared with that produced to generate the
>paper, inks and the transportation of the junk to your letterbox.

I find it presently takes me much more time each day to sort through the
junk email I receive than sort through the junk snail mail. The email is
much more annoying.

>One of the many wonderful things about humanity is that it and its cultures
>are ever changing. <snip> Indeed I suggest that
>without commercialization the Internet will eventually wither and die.

At least this is something on which we can agree. I have built a very
successful business over the last three years leveraging on the fact that
the Internet is now commercial. On a daily basis I distribute tens of
thousands of advertisements for my clients through the web sites I build
for them or through mailing lists that I operate. The key point here is
that advertisements are only distributed to those that signed up for them,
either though clicking on a hyperlink, typing in a URL or signing up for a
mailing list.

The internet culture is changing, and will continue to change. This is
good. The fact that it is changing and becoming more commercial does not
mean that sending unsolicited advertisements is becoming any less offensive
or more accepted to the majority of users.

--Cliff

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