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In article <4b234be4$0$14125$703f8584 at textnews.kpn.nl>, Wilm Boerhout <w6.boerhout at planet.nl> writes:
>Richard B. Gilbert mentioned  on 12-12-2009 2:45:
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>[...] snipped
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>> Another term for "mass email" is "Spam".
>
>One man's spam is another man's advertising. Even before the internet, 
>businesses forced stuff down my throat and my (physical) mailbox that I 
>did not ask for. And anyway, it's just a big conspirary of the server, 
>switch and bandwidth guys. Without it, we could do with 90% fewer 
>infrastructure, and where would that leave them? An unconvenient truth 
>indeed!

Those who pay for the bandwidth to send it call it advertisement; those who
pay for the bandwidth to receive it call it SPAM.  I'd prefer my money spent
for bandwidth to be used for what I want it to be used for and not for that
which is forced upon me.  In the days of snail-mailbox fodder, it'd cost me
nothing to received that mail but that is not the case with SPAM.  SPAM has
numerous costs in terms of bandwidth, CPU cycles, storage and wasted time. 

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