Spam Control Considered Harmful

Thu Oct 30 10:01:25 UTC 1997

> 
> Actually, Karl would be the first to point out that often spammers don't pay
> .. they hook up for their free trial period and get the boot a few days
> later.
> 

Then companies need to look at wether free trial accounts should be able to
send email. I think most trial are more useful to test connectivity, try the
chat rooms etc. How many need email?

> 
> The whole point of spam being wrong is that since it is a cooperative
> process, it costs the recipient to receive it. (Contrast this to bulk postal
> mail, which only costs the sender anything.)
> 

I would guess that the thousands (millions) of tonnes of junk mail cost us
nothing to put into landfill sites, or incinerate...

Matt.

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