Complaints about spam are TRUE theft of services

On or About 19 Mar 98 at 14:27, Ian Briggs wrote:

> >> Spamming is an 'imaginary' felony, as are anonymity and
> >> encryption.
> 
> No, its actually theft of services.  

No, actually your complaints about spam are TRUE theft of 
services.  In an article that I posted to this list last year it says 
the following:

Mailing-list spammers

Email spam is the favorite gripe of most Netizens, excepting the
spammers. Congress is considering legislation [25] to limit the
practice of sending unwanted commercial email in bulk. Not everyone
thinks this is a good idea. See [26] for a thread from an ongoing
debate on Declan McCullagh's fight-censorship mailing list. George
Matyjewicz <mosaic1 at ix dot netcom dot com> did a modest experiment
on a week's worth of his email -- he is on 56 mailing lists and gets
around 200 messages a day -- to gauge how widespread the problem
actually is. Matyjewicz posted these results: 

Total messages...1,354...193.4

Spam messages.......10.......1.4.....< 1 %

Spam complaints....189.......27.0.....14 %

This article is at:

http://206.215.211.222/archive/0108.html

Spam is not crime, it's commerce.  Shut up and hit that delete key, 
you fucktard.

Thanks.

=-=-=-=-=-=-
Ross Wright
King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services
http://ross.adnetsol.com
Voice: (408) 259-2795

At 03:27 PM 3/20/98 -0700, Ross Wright wrote:
>No, actually your complaints about spam are TRUE theft of services. 

If you're a spammer, you're in no position to complain.

>[Anecdotes about somebody receiving more complaints about spam
than actual spam.]

Complaints about spam are free speech, and by encouraging Internet providers
to increase the size of their networks, they're obviously commerce :-)

Anecdotes are just anecdotes; except during the occasional flame war about spam, 
I generally receive a lot more spam than complaints.  And at least the 
complaints have some creative thought behind them, unlike the spam...
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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