Re: Court challenge to AOL junk-mail blocks

In a message dated 96-09-06 23:31:06 EDT, rwright@adnetsol.com (Ross Wright)
writes:

<<  Everyone on this list seems to want to limit
 government  intervention EXCEPT when it comes to spam, then every
 one just holds the door open wide and let them in.  If they get that
 inch, they WILL take the whole 9 YARDS!!!!!!  Get a clue, delete or
 killfile those who spam and keep the government out of
 cyberspace!!!!!!
  >>
Tell me about it. Im on AOL. WHO CARESSSSSSS if ya get one MAYBE two pieces
of  mail you take LESS than a second to delete them both with the handy
delete key. These people are wasting more time complaining about it than they
will ever do actually deleting it.

AwakenToMe@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 96-09-06 23:31:06 EDT, rwright@adnetsol.com (Ross Wright)
> writes:
>
> <<  Everyone on this list seems to want to limit
>  government  intervention EXCEPT when it comes to spam, then every
>  one just holds the door open wide and let them in.  If they get that
>  inch, they WILL take the whole 9 YARDS!!!!!!  Get a clue, delete or
>  killfile those who spam and keep the government out of
>  cyberspace!!!!!!
>   >>
> Tell me about it. Im on AOL. WHO CARESSSSSSS if ya get one MAYBE two pieces
> of  mail you take LESS than a second to delete them both with the handy
> delete key. These people are wasting more time complaining about it than they
> will ever do actually deleting it.

I don't use AOL and ask others not to use it because they practice censorship.
(A service where one gets a TOS warning for saying "I'm horny!" in a chatroom
desribed as "Gay&Lesbian Sex discussion" deserves to be boycotted.)

However AOL would probably please their customers if it allowed them to filter
their incoming e-mail according to user-specified rules. E.g., if you could
choose to tell AOL that any incoming e-mail matching certain criteria should
be dropped on the floor, at no cost to you, I'm sure a lot of AOL users would
be very grateful and would use this feature. Ditto for other providers.

---

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 AwakenToMe@aol.com wrote:

> Tell me about it. Im on AOL. WHO CARESSSSSSS if ya get one MAYBE two pieces
> of  mail you take LESS than a second to delete them both with the handy
> delete key. These people are wasting more time complaining about it than they
> will ever do actually deleting it.

If you know a valid email address on the spammers system you can always 
bounce each message back to them.  If enough people turned the messages 
back on them it might give them the opportunity to experience first hand 
what its like to receive tons of mail you don't want or need...

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                  /  |/ / _ \/ __/\__ \/ / / / ___/ /_/ _ \/ ___/
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On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 AwakenToMe@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 96-09-06 23:31:06 EDT, rwright@adnetsol.com (Ross Wright)
> writes:
> <<  Everyone on this list seems to want to limit
>  government  intervention EXCEPT when it comes to spam, then every
>  one just holds the door open wide and let them in.  If they get that
>  inch, they WILL take the whole 9 YARDS!!!!!!  Get a clue, delete or
>  killfile those who spam and keep the government out of
>  cyberspace!!!!!!
>   >>
> Tell me about it. Im on AOL. WHO CARESSSSSSS if ya get one MAYBE two pieces
> of  mail you take LESS than a second to delete them both with the handy
> delete key. These people are wasting more time complaining about it than they
> will ever do actually deleting it.

     I would guess that AOL isn't doing it just because of user complaints.
AOL has millions of accounts, and spammers try to hit ALL of the addresses.
That probably (I am guessing here) doubles (or triples) the load on AOL's 
already over burdened mail system. 




Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com

On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, snow wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 AwakenToMe@aol.com wrote:
> > Tell me about it. Im on AOL. WHO CARESSSSSSS if ya get one MAYBE two pieces
> > of  mail you take LESS than a second to delete them both with the handy
> > delete key. These people are wasting more time complaining about it than they
> > will ever do actually deleting it.
> 
>      I would guess that AOL isn't doing it just because of user complaints.
> AOL has millions of accounts, and spammers try to hit ALL of the addresses.
> That probably (I am guessing here) doubles (or triples) the load on AOL's 
> already over burdened mail system. 

The news reports that I've read also say that, at least in the case of
Cyberpromo, 75% of their email database is AOL addresses.

Matt