DV>I really don't mind advertising in general, and indeed I RELY on it as a
DV>business owner. I just refuse to be forced to swallow it when I don't want
DV>to. There's a place for it, but the place is not email.
DV>Dave Voorhis
Dave,
Finally came up with a clear response for folks who argue that "Internet
junkmail is no worse than postal junkmail." (The delay may be due to
slow-wittedness on my part, of course.)
A junkmailer who sends me juunk through the U.S. Postal System is
annoyging, true. I may read the stuff. I will probably throw it out.
But at least the Postal junkmailer is paying for it. By paying more
into the postal system, the P.J. is partly subsidizing my personal
postal capabilities. A first class stamp for my letter to mom several
states away isn't 32 cents because it -costs- 32 cents to deliver that
letter, but rather because the Postal Service gets enough money overall
to be able to -afford- to charge me only 32 cents for a couple-thousand-
mile drive. The economies of scale are amplified by the payments of all
them junkmailers, granted paying less per piece, but also sending a heck
of a lot more pieces than I send. So, oh well, I accept the junk, and
throw it out.
A UCI, or Unsolicited Commercial Idiot is (probably) not paying more for
access to the Internet than I am. They are not making a greater
contribution to the overall cost of the net than I am. They are simply
using much, much more bandwidth than I am, annoying a bunch of folks,
and contibuting nothing of value to speak of.
Of course I spend rather more than a lot of folks on Internet stuff,
with the extra hardware/software/access to run the lists & other Fun
Stuff I do.
Wish I'd thought of this argument back when somebody last said "but it's
just the same as ..." <g>
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