spam out of control?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

Odd aside, sort of:

In Sweden, people put little signs on their doors saying that they do
not want advertisement through the mail slot. And you know, this works.
I am not sure if it is a law, but whatever it is works. If that same
logic could just be applied to the electronic variety.


On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 04:30, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> Ted Ozolins wrote:
> > Kurt Wall wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >>
> >> Ayup... My biggest beef with spam (yeah, pun, whatever) is that it
> >> is a theft of service.
> >>
> >> Kurt
> >>  
> >>
> > I received a phone call from my ISP asking me for my opinion on how to 
> > improve the service I get from them. I replied "Start taking the 
> > spammers to court for theft of service"  They didn't seem to hear what I 
> > said so I repeated again, fell on what seemed to be deaf ears.  I then 
> > informed the gent that when telus.net and fools want to be serious about 
> > quality of service to give me  a call. I told him that I was getting a 
> > little put off with their compromised service and their total lack of 
> > caring for their clientel.
> > At which point I hung up. You're right Kurt, it is a theft of service. 
> > If I were to take a pickup full of garbage and dropped it into someones 
> > garbage bin, I'd be charged asap. Why aren't the spammers? Dang I hate 
> > those blood_suckers!
> > 
> 
> I think David had the best idea, Start suing the merchants that use spam for 
> advertising.  I suspect that the spammers are going to be too slippery to stop 
> as long as there are folks willing to pay them to spam.
> 
>      -- Alma
> 
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