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Re: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 SPAM
<diatribe> I have been performing a personal experiment and un-subscribing from SPAMS where they offer the choice and guess what I am getting less spam (shock horror) Doc says that responding to spam confirms that you are a live user, well I guess that is right providing they have the technology to deal with this. But as Doc has said in the past 'markets are about conversations' (sic sorry Doc) I am having a conversation with my spamers and those that care about conversation are listening! I _am_ getting less spam 1. I don’t believe that the vast majority of spamers are sophisticated enough to listen to replies, if they are that sophisticated then they stop sending it to you, some of the time. 2. Replying to bona-fide sites (those that have a registered site) has reduced my spam by 50% 3. We need to adopt strategies to cope with SPAM but I worry about 'loosing the conversation.' Ask me would I rather we legislate against spam and restrict the ‘conversation' or would I rather we all continue to winge about spam and ramp up the tool set to reduce it. 4. The risk of anti spam legislation closing the bazaar is too great, spam is pain so get smart and develop strategies to deal with it. So suck it up and go get mail washer or some such. Junk mail will not go away nor will spam, making it go away may just make all sorts of other things like freedom to send email go away as well. Do I like spam? NO! Do I like the internet freedom YES! will I get spam no matter what we do ...... </diatribe off > There are responses to this message:
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