Re: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re: The owners of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit

[Robin Miller <robin@minervan.com>]

Sotiropoulos wrote:

> 
> In any case, if the "consensus" is that spam is bad amongst a given group, then it is... but then so is just about every other advertising avenue that
> people use upon you without your permission, I guess.
> 
> Personally, I do not use spam, nor do i condone it.  However, I live with it, just like I live with a lot of things i don't do, nor condone...

Nothing irritates me more than US Grade A Spam clogging my mailbox.  Spam is
bad for bandwidth. In a lot of countries, one pays by the minute for
downloading email. (even I have to sometimes, if Telekom goes down - forcing me
to use an expensive call by call number)

Spam also causes great strain on mail servers. Thats why AOL went to battle
with Cyberpromo - Cyberpromo was literally taking their mail servers down with
the spam, pissing off the AOL members at the same time. I remember those
Cyberpromo days very well...

So thats why I'm anti-spam - its worse than just clogging your mailbox like a
junk flyer, from an Internet perspective. Spammers are costing networks money,
lots of it sometimes. Lots of Net admins see that as theft, and I don't really
blame them.  Of course the junk flyer is bad for trees - granted. But that has
little to do with the Net. :)

all the best, Robin
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