Spam Society

[Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>]

> We seem to go towards a Spam Society instead of
> Information Society. Spam Highway, not Information Highway.
> Barry, thanks, you try to prevent telecomreg from being
> converted to telecomspam. Nevertheless the topics on this
> list seem to move towards advertising rather than discussion.
>
> The noble concept of freedom of speech has been degraded
> to obligation to listen. For me e-mail is highly personal,
> it is not intended for anybody wanting to sell whatever
> or otherwise sending bulk messages. I don't want to have an
> obligation to receive any messages that somebody wants to
> send, even if I publish my e-mail address.
>
> The idea that spam receivers may request to be removed from
> a mailing list is stillborn. Even if it would work for one
> mailing list, it has no impact on the following 1000 lists,
> or on the same person / company with a "new" list.
>
> Time after time I have been told that spam is bad, but the
> particular person does not send spam. His unsolicited
> commercial bulk e-mail messages are valuable information
> or some other excuse.
>
> New forms are emerging. Somebody is selling e-mail addresses
> of professionals in the telecoms sector.
> There is no way to get one's name removed.
>
> Highly reputed organisations have started using spam. One response:
> "For your information, we do our utmost not to spam customers. We have a
> database of over 100,000 customers and this particular email was only sent
> to 1% of this database - people that we considered could be genuinely
> interested in our consulting expertise in the ASP/WASP arena."
>
> It is not possible to buy an electronic publication from OECD
> without receiving marketing messages afterwards. They said
> it is not spam. For me it is. And it is not the type of
> e-commerce that I like. I would call it e-spam-commerce.
>
> I got rid of most unwanted direct letter-mail advertising.
> I simply return the letters unopened. If I had not done that,
> I would probably receive some 5 - 10 kg of such mail daily.
> This does not work for spam as spam messages are so cheap.
>
> Is this the future that we want? What should - and can - be done?
>
> Arno
>
> At 17:58 28.9.2002 -0500, Barry Orton wrote:
> >Please don't respond on-list to spammers trolling the list for
> >addresses.  I've already removed the original offender.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Barry Orton
> >telecomreg list admin
> >
> >(Yes telecomreg still exists, napping, waiting for one of its
> >subscribers to send the list a question, or comment and wake it up.)
> >
> >
>
> ------
> Mr. Arno Wirzenius
> Telecoms consultant, www.iki.fi/arnow/
>


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