[Info-vax] SFF and MIME

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <3qWdnfMlF_muSb7WnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>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.

Comcast?  Never.

TMESIS.COM is going on 15 years.  I'm not about to change my email address
because a bunch of puerile script-kiddies have taken over someone's unsec-
ured web server and are using it to SPAM.

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