[Info-vax] SFF and MIME

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In article <J7KdnaFFR8_gAL7WnZ2dnUVZ_jKdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>Wilm Boerhout wrote:
>> 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!
>> 
>> /Wilm
>> 
>> PS anybody wanna buy a Rolex?
>
>IF I have done business with a company and they send me some advertising 
>by e-mail I don't mind very much.  It's actually conceivable that it 
>might be of some use to me.
>
>It's the stuff that shows up in my inbox offering a great deal on penis 
>enlargers or telling me how to make a fortune as an Elbonian Mud Dealer 
>that I object to.
>
>I don't see much spam.  Comcast has pretty good spam filters and it has 
>been years since I opened an e-mail and found my self looking at a 
>gynecologist's view of female genetalia!

Wow!  That's almost an incentive to stop using VMS mail and move to a GUI
based agent.
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