[Info-vax] SFF and MIME

[Wilm Boerhout]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG mentioned  on 12-12-2009 14:01:
> 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:
>>
>> [...] snipped
>>> 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. 

The cost of advertising, be it physical or networked, has always been 
paid for by the users of the advertised products. This is called the 
marketing communications budget in the cost breakdown.

/Wilm

These are my principles, Sir! And if you don't like them, well, I've got 
other principles as well -- Groucho Marx