Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful

[ On Wed, October 29, 1997 at 15:40:01 (-0600), djhoward@uiuc.edu wrote: ]

Subject: Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful

[....] (Contrast this to bulk postal mail, which only costs the sender anything.)

A popular, but unfortunately all too untrue fallacy. Bulk snail-mail costs us all on the less tangible side. Here in Canada our postal service would like us to believe that bulk mail subsidises the cost of first class mail, but in the opinions of many the savings are hardly worth those less tangible costs that might affect us much deeper than just our pocket books. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>