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Hello fellow Listserv maintainers:
I happen to live in the Philadelphia area where Spamford lives. There is a
weekly radio talk show about computers that airs on one of the local talk
stations here. I forget the name of the guy who hosts the show, but he's a
senior editor with Information Week magazine.
On a recent broadcast of this show, r Spamford Wallace was on discussing this
new spam network. Unfortunately, I missed that part of the show and I only
got to hear the last half an hour of the show after Spamford's interview was
over. The opinion by the host of the show and several callers was very
positive. One caller raved about how easy it was to deal with Spamford's
company. This caller said he had Spamford send out a message to sell his
how-to books. As a result, his book sales climbed significantly. The only
way to stop spamming activity of this kind, if Spamford's plan does not work
as planned, is for spamming to be unprofitable.
Maybe this opt out provision will work now that the big spam outfits are
cooporating with one another, but only time will tell. Apparantly, we will
be able to go to a Web site and select which types of spam messages you want,
if any. For example, if you're into sports, you can enroll to receive just
spam on that topic ... at least that's what was claimed on this radio show.
From the way the show's host was talking, its in Spamford's best interest to
be as accurate as possible in e-mailing people with his spam because its so
easy for the recipients of spam to delete messages without reading them.
From what I could gather, they really don't want to waste people's time with
spam any more than they want to waste their own time sending such messages.
I hope that's true. It certainly makes sense. The success of this plan, if
Spamford and his cohorts really live up to their word, depends on how good
they are at getting all the other spamming agencies to join in on this
registration plan.
Stan Horwitz Internet: [log in to unmask] Bitnet: STAN@TEMPLEVM
Temple University -- Senior Consultant (My views are all mine!)
Manager of the Help-Net and Suggest lists and Listserv Postmaster.
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