NODE 31528f83Re: "The Virtual Hand": Free-market Internet guide
Richard Johnson <Richard.Johnson@Colorado.EDU>Sat, 18 Jun 94 16:58:07 PDT
> > >The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce:
> > >
> > > THE VIRTUAL HAND
> > >
> > > CEI'S FREE-MARKET GUIDE TO THE
> > > INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
> > >...
>
> > Alright, who let the spammer in? I subscribe to net-resources for this
> > sorta crud; I don't need to see it here in cypherpunks.
>
> Didn't look like a spam to me. It looked like a very targeted ad
> to a receptive audience. Cypherpunks contains, after all, a high...
This part of the audience is certainly not receptive. I'm here to
discuss crypto and its implications, not to have my mailbox filled with
adverts.
Keep the spam off. Unordered e-mail advertising (beyond a pointer to
where to find more info) is indeed bad. If I wanted to read that guff in
its entirety, I would have checked the Web, gophers, or FTP sites, etc.
Richard
NODE cb80e588Re: "The Virtual Hand": Free-market Internet guide
Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>Sat, 18 Jun 94 17:21:09 PDT
C'punks,
On Sat, 18 Jun 1994, Richard Johnson wrote:
> . . .
> Keep the spam off. Unordered e-mail advertising (beyond a pointer to
> where to find more info) is indeed bad. If I wanted to read that guff in
> its entirety, I would have checked the Web, gophers, or FTP sites, etc.
> . . .
Why is it no one ever complains about "Jobs Available" or "Jobs Wanted"
e-mail advertisements? ("That's different!" Right.)
S a n d y