[pmmail-list] Spam -- your definition

[Jon Etkins]

On Thu, 30 May 2002 09:50:43 -0500, Oberon wrote:

>On Thu, 30 May 2002 08:43:55 -0600 (MDT), Ann Knight wrote:
>
>> UCE/UBE (my definition of "spam") is theft. Telemarketers don't call me collect
>
>No, but they call on the phone you pay to have in your home.  This analogy is
>closer to what happens with spam in most cases than your analogy.  Many of us
>don't pay by the piece for our e-mail, it's a flat subscription rate, same as
>your home phone line.

I think you're missing the point that the rates we ALL pay include a
component that goes towards maintaining the network as a whole.  If every
household in the country started receiving dozens of telemarketing calls
per day, the underlying infrastructure would have to be beefed up to handle
the increased load, resulting in higher backbone fees levied on ISPs, and
consequently higher access fees for the end user.


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