[pmmail-list] Spam -- your definition

[Robert Gammon]

On Thu, 30 May 2002 17:15:31 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:

>>>number of things I have bought that I found out about in this 
way. If I
>>>had as many unsolicited commercial phone calls as I get 
individual
>>>unsolicited email (50 a day on bad days) then I would have 
blown an
>>>artery by now, every call would be met with a torrent of anger 
and
>>
>>True, but emails are MUCH easier to deal with than a phone 
call. You
>>don't need to get up to answer them, you can delete them in 
much less
>>time than it takes to extricate yourself from a phone call 
(even if
>>that's only 3 seconds). So a higher frequency of email, but 
easier to
>>deal with each.
>
>Disagree, I *never* get 50 phone calls of this type in a day, 1 
is
>exceptional. But every day I have to deal with spam, 
collectively it
>wastes a lot more of my life.

Until I changed my phone number, twice in the last 18 months, 
telemarketing calls and 'dead' calls - those that go 'click' as 
soon as you say something, DOMINATED incoming calls.  No, not 50 
per day, but easily a dozen or more AFTER we got home from work 
at the peak, and 5-6 most days.

Robert 

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