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Originally posted by grimm@Jan 11 2005, 11:28 PM
every time this spam argument comes up, i walk down to my mailbox, pull out a bunch of catalogues, flyers and note cards, scratch my head, and throw them in the trash and wonder....if they make the electronic stuff illegal, why dont they start with the postal system... then i remember, oh yeah, its the UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE... they make money off of it.
so the answer is, if the Federal government cannot make money off of it, they want to shut it down until such time that they can figure out a way to charge for it, then they will encourage it.
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The difference is you have to pay to send each piece of postal mail.
If it were free, like email is, you can bet we'd all have to have mailboxes the size of 55 gallon drums or larger. And we wouldn't be able to find our copy of TV Guide because it was buried underneath thousands of offers for dick pills and subscription offers to Nuns 'n Nazis.
...most of which would be postmarked Vancouver.
