Re: email or quality information?

Doug Greenwald (fsgreen_at_gwis.com)
Sat, 6 Jul 1996 21:17:45 -0400

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At 12:51 AM 7/7/96, Peter Hartley wrote:

>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.

can't argue with this - it is technically correct, but isn't the reason why
some of us don't like unsolicited e-mail and don't want it to grow...

>One of the many wonderful things about humanity is that it and its cultures
>are ever changing. We do not any longer, in general, roast cats in baskets
>over slow fires or burn people at the stake because they happen to have a
>"suspicious" mole on their body. ARPANET is history. The bbs-to-bbs by-phone
>transmission of usenet, hopefully will die soon - more recent and more

a strange way of looking at usenet, but the server-to-server transfer is
part of the protocol and won't go away (usenet predated the internet and
most notions of "bbs" systems - it's always been "by-phone", but the
"calls" tend to stay connected now).

>efficient technologies await their application to this relatively simple
>task. Government subsidies of the Internet are FINISHED - commercialization
>is a fact - domain name registration and two-yearly re-registration to
>finance backbone nameservers is now a fact of life. Indeed I suggest that
>without commercialization the Internet will eventually wither and die.

I agree that the commercialization of the internet is a Good Thing. i
manage 2 corporate connections so i can't not accept the commercialization
of the internet. we don't disagree here either.

my reason why i don't like unsolicited e-mail: i brought up 2 corporate
domains (so far). i brought them up for a reason. that reason is/was not
for j. random advertiser to send e-mail ads to the corporate users.

i ask for the continued respect for Internet resources. use the internet
to make money? sure - go for it. use the internet for advertising? sure,
my 2 connections do. use someone else's resources? not without
permission.

unsolicited e-mail ads use a resource that someone else is paying for.
that's why i oppose it.

FWIW

doug.

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