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Re: Evil Spammers
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 5 May 1999 20:55:17 GMT
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I've been using AOL since '94, and I only recently started getting spam, and it
is no more than once a week. Of course, all I use it for now is e-mail. ;)
Jeff
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Aha! An argument I can carry. Unfortunately, it's hard for me to find
> anyone who would rationally argue the other side. :-P
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> Richard Dee wrote:
> > I imagine it is related to AOL's takeover?
> > I used AOL for a month's free trial a couple of years back,
> > and received internal spam quite regularly.
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> There is absolutely no reason for AOL to be against spamming, for several
> reasons:
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> 1: The income they get from selling names to mailing lists is formidable.
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> 2: The exposure advertisers get with AOL's captive audience is formidable.
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> 3: The volume of spams which originate from or seem to originate from their
> site does little to decrease new customer signups.
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> 4: The volume of spams coming in to their site is to be fought -- but as a
> businessperson would fight a competitor.
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> 5: The average AOL customer doesn't understand the implications of anti-spam
> arguments, so in their sheeplike way they allow it to continue.
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> No, AOL is not in the business of stopping spam.
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> Just my .02 kopek.
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> Cheers,
> - jsproat
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> --
> Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
> "I prefer the term para-mental. It keeps me out of the loony bin."
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| On Wed, 5 May 1999 20:55:17 GMT, Jeff Stembel uttered the following profundities... (...) I would have at first suggested the possibility that I had received the spam while on AOL was due to being on the UK version of AOL. Not likely, though, as it (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Aha! An argument I can carry. Unfortunately, it's hard for me to find anyone who would rationally argue the other side. :-P (...) There is absolutely no reason for AOL to be against spamming, for several reasons: 1: The income they get from selling (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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