Posted on 11/22/2002 9:33:39 AM PST by cebadams
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:12:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Har!!
Hey,...you don't suppose they set the package on fire, rang the doorbell and ran way do you...?
That's about how I feel about Ralsky.
TV commercials pay for the programming. SPAM gives nothing back but headaches. The analogy that better suits your argument is the advertisements on web sites. They pay for the free content.
You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything.There are people in this world who have to be taken out. Osama bin Ladin is one ...
"Unsolicited" TV commercials cost me nothing. I can change the channel or cancel the cable service carrying them. Spam costs me time and money, costs my service provider time and money, and costs bandwidth providers time and money, out of pocket.
What makes the TV commercials (and bulk junk "snail" mail) more legitimate than bulk email?? Why should'nt Proctor and Gamble, Ford, and McDonalds' "get theirs"?
Because Procter and Gamble, Ford, etc. are paying the going market rate for their messages to be broadcast on TV channels. Spammers pay nothing but the stinking little dialup they use to inject their crap into open servers, if they even pay for that. Spammers expect the rest of us to subsidize their advertising costs, and that's theft and its wrong.
If you don't like commercials, turn off the TV...if you don't like bulk email, use filters.
If you don't like people taking money from your pockets, get stronger pockets. Right?
Now, having said all that, I will side with ISP's that are struggling with bandwidth overload because of bulk email.
That's big of you. And spammers are a good chunk of the reason they are struggling. Businesses who continually, involuntarily have product stolen from them go out of business at shocking rates.
I now have a new email address I give to friends, family and legitimate businesses that I hope to keep out of the hands of spammers.
Actually, it would be better to loop a piece of "black" paper through the FAX. Goodbye print cartridge(s)!
YEAH! We'll need a few ropes! I need a rope for all those dang commercials on MY television set. What gives them the right to interrupt my football games?! It's MY tv, I paid for it with MY money, I paid for my cable access so I can watch FOOTBALL!!!! Not commercials!
Hey... come to think of it, we need to hang those dang telemarketers too! Yeah, and then we can go after the jerks that put up those stupid billboards that I have to see everytime I drive down the highway! Amd then, we can........
I have missed important messages because of spam. I can't comment further because I'm afraid of what I might say. Spam makes my blood boil.
I had a similar problem until I contacted my ISP (att.net) and complained. They said my account could be set up to go through Brightmail first but I had to check the box in my set-up. I went to the att.net website, logged into my account and checked the box. My spam went down 75% immediately.
You might want to check with your ISP if they have the same filter arrangemnet with Brightmail.
Let me put in a plug for Yahoo... I used to have a Hotmail account. It got so much spam I lost the messages I wanted to keep due to bandwidth. So I switched to Yahoo and have not had a problem. Maybe 10% of my email is spam, and most of it goes straight into the bulk folder, to be deleted after 30 days automatically.
The point I'm trying to make is that you probably could not name 3 people that you know personally who would pay $280.00 for a model race car to put up on thier shelf, but they are out there. The sheer numbers this guy is getting positive responses from "legitimize" his business. 250 million e-mails... That's huge. The only thing you can do is just delete it. Don't reply and don't answer those questions when you sign up with Yahoo or any other servers. When they ask you to check off your hobbies and "would you like to receive information regarding the best airline fares?" The answer is NO! It is "legitimate" places like these that the bulk e-mailers get their lists.
You will need to know your SMTP Server Address BEFORE you attempt install. If you don't know what that means get a techie friend to help you or call your Internet Service Provider. There is a cure for spam. It's fun to sling spam back at the spammer. If there was any justice in this world, spammers would be chained to an oar.
It's interesting to see people get fired up about this, yet they'll allow "unsolicted" commercials to bombard them while they watch TV. Nobody seems to get upset about that.
What makes the TV commercials (and bulk junk "snail" mail) more legitimate than bulk email?? Why should'nt Proctor and Gamble, Ford, and McDonalds' "get theirs"?
Internet bandwidth is not a public resource like the electromagnetic spectrum (over-the-air TV signals) are. Furthermore, my Internet connection and my computer's processor cycles are (or should be) mine to choose what to do with and not be forced to download or deal with spam e-mail in any way. I do grant that the electric power used by the television whilst displaying adverts is a theft from me.
It's too bad this guy has got an unlisted telephone number. He should receive unsolicited taped sales pitches, at every phone he's at or near, constantly.
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