[Info-vax] SFF and MIME

[Richard B. Gilbert]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.
> 

Try Comcast as your IP.  Very little spam slips through their filters. 
I get a little advertising but it's from companies I do business with. 
ISTR that they offer me an "opt out" which I have not used.