NODE 85482da1Re: Excerpt on SPAM from Edupage, 11 February 1997
jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>Fri, 14 Feb 1997 20:40:07 -0800 (PST)
At 10:12 AM 2/13/97 -0500, Pete Capelli wrote:
>jim bell wrote:
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>> At 03:25 PM 2/12/97 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
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><Some deleted>
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>> even more happy to pay, say, 10 cents to each recipient. At that rate, an average
>> person would probably receive enough "spam" to pay for his Internet
>> account, quite analogous to the way advertiser-supported TV is presented to
>> the public for no explicit charge.
>
> Yes, but why does monetary compensation make it then O.K.?
What, exactly, is your definition of "O.K."? I didn't say that would make
it "O.K." Rather, the inclusion of the money makes the spam somewhat more
tolerable of an intrusion than it would otherwise be.
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com