From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] spam (was "pathetic")
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 17:17:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e53d0b955987afff06292756dc7e4c9@collyer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040228144033.1227.qmail@mail.dirac.net>
One reason you get so much paper spam (junk mail) is that the post
office (at least in the US and I believe Canada) *subsidises* the
spammers: they get lower postal rates for bulk spamming.
The only reason people tolerate paper spam is that most individuals
don't get 100 - 200 pieces of paper mail per day, but some of us do
get that much (or more) electronic mail. In the 1980s as a computer
center system administrator, I got about 200 messages every working
day, and that was before electronic spam.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-29 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-28 14:40 Keith Nash
2004-02-29 1:17 ` Geoff Collyer [this message]
2004-02-29 1:58 ` George Michaelson
2004-02-29 1:37 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-29 2:02 ` David Presotto
2004-02-29 4:42 ` 9nut
2004-03-01 10:35 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-03-01 14:37 ` Axel Belinfante
2004-03-01 15:07 ` Axel Belinfante
2004-03-01 16:55 ` matt
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