Hooper, if you the marketter was paying attention, you would realize that people forge names. You would accept that people play tricks on other people. You would use a double opt in system to assure that only people that want your stuff would get it. Your request to opt in should be neutral.
under your system, you can just type in names and mail to them, because, well, someone else probably would have forged them one day.
No, it isn't that I have an issue with the content per se. I have an issue with the sheer volume of the stuff. Having to empty out my hotmail account every other day because of spam is a bit excessive, no? Worse, most of the spam is repeats... the same people over and over again offering porn, pills, and mortgages. Hundreds of them a day. It is pretty overwhelming.
Most spam uses faked headers, fake return addresses, and faked "cancel" systems. Many use the cancel list as a way of confirming that an address is good. Opting out of one gets you opted into another.
The actions of an single spammer in and of itself isn't a problem. But like "death of a thousand cuts", you get enough spammers are working and it really sucks. It uses up network resources, it uses up time... and it makes it impossible to find real mail amoungst your endless, repetitive missives.
If you don't think spam costs, consider how much AOL, Earthlink, or any other major ISP has to overbuild their network, their mail system, and such just to handle spam. Tell me again how it doesn't cost them anything... and how it doesn't cost the end user anything as a result.
Sorry Hooper, your just wrong, and all the self justification won't change it.
Alex
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