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In article <4b2399e2$0$14121$703f8584 at textnews.kpn.nl>, Wilm Boerhout <w6.boerhout at planet.nl> writes:
>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.

I don't care what time it is, so I don't need a watch.
I don't golf, so I don't care that a new club drives balls farther.
I'm happily married, so I have no need for Russian brides.
I'm happily married because I don't need Viagra, Cialis, length or girth!

Therefore, _I_ am not paying to advertise these products.  I am, however,
paying to read their SPAM advertisements.  With SPAM, I'm paying for the
advertisement of products I DO NOT USE nor WOULD I USE.

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