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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Andrew Dowle writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Matthew Teets writes:
> > In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Dylan Bradley writes:
> > >
> > > Sproaticus wrote in message ...
> > > > I just can't believe it. Just after this recent debacle, someone else • drops
> > > > this into my in-box, AS WELL AS posting it on LUGNET. Again, from a LUGNET
> > > > regular.
> > > >
> > > > I will refrain from spewing insulting judgements towards this guy's morals • and
> > > > intelligence, but this is quickly getting tiresome. This is not • acceptable; I
> > > > will just have get more agressive.
> > > >
> > > > Todd, what policies are you considering?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > - jsproat
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Personally, I wouldn't mind being spammed with cheap Lego ads *cough,
> > > cough*. Much better than "make money over night" or "send this email to 10
> > > people and win $1000" and "Reverse the aging process with so-and-so's
> > > whatshamawhozit"...
> > >
> > > Always lookin' for a bargain...
> > >
> > > Opinionatedly,
> > > DBR
> >
> > I agree, I'm getting tired of a certain amount of the population spewing off
> > whenever they get an unwanted request. I can only imagine that these peoples
> > neighbors must go nuts listening to these people checking their mailboxes • each
> > night and going into a screaming tantrum because of the junk mail they have
> > received. Of course there is also the variation of "I got on the highway and
> > EVERYONE ELSE was clogging it up" or "I went to MY favorite store and • EVERYONE
> > ELSE bought all the new sets." I've been guilty of this myself before and
> > have repented. This is the cost of living in civilization folks, people who
> > refuse this price have a name: hermits. Choose your camp then get into it.
> >
> > Matt
>
> So, you're saying that by having a house, telephone, email account etc, it
> gives everyone else the right to contact me and try to sell me something?
>
> I agree that you can't sensibly object to going shopping and finding it busy,
> but you can object to somebody coming up to you in the carpark afterwards and
> saying that because you are a shopper and a car driver, you obviously want to
> join a bookclub.
>
> Personally, spam doesn't bother me, because it's easy to recycle/delete, but
> that doesn't make it ok.
>
> Andrew
If you live in the U.S., why yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
If you live in a house and you don't have posted, "No Soliciting", anyone is
welcome to come up to the door and knock and ask you to buy something, it's
not against the law unless you have already asked them to go away.
If you have a phone, anyone can call you unless you have asked to be removed
from their call list.
If you have a mailbox. Well, there isn't anything you can do. By paying the
postage they have bought the right to send you something.
As far as e-mail, anyone can send you anything that isn't illegal and your
right is to basically delete it. You can set up most e-mail programs to
reject e-mail from all but approved addresses.
By doing this of course you might miss out on something, but that's the
problem with building a big fence around your house, not having a phone and
not picking up your mail or e-mail.
By the way, in your example about being approached in the parking lot. The
isn't anything you can do. The store that owns the parking lot could argue
soliciting on their property without permission. That IS illegal.
This is a capitalist country and that's the ways the laws are written. Poor
etiquette? I don't think Getty, Rockefeller, Gates or countless others ever
worried about the fact that someone might think they were impolite in their
business dealings. As a matter of fact I'm sure someone is scanning these
lists right now for e-mail addresses. Oh well.
Matt
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