From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45945 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Scott A Crosby Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new spam functionality added Date: 01 Aug 2002 14:16:57 -0500 Organization: Rice University Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87y9brejam.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <873ctztyth.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <02Jul31.171132edt.119710@gateway.intersystems.com> <87fzxzsit2.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <87bs8my0ih.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028229535 10195 127.0.0.1 (1 Aug 2002 19:18:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:18:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17aLTI-0002e3-00 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 21:18:52 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17aLRp-0006UP-00; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:17:21 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:17:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA12596 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:17:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 19009 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2002 19:17:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19001 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2002 19:17:00 -0000 Original-Received: from cs.rice.edu (128.42.1.30) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Aug 2002 19:17:00 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05BC64AA04; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:16:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sam.cs.rice.edu (sam.cs.rice.edu [128.42.3.145]) by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0DA4AA07; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:16:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sam.cs.rice.edu (Postfix, from userid 14314) id C7926740DB; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:16:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45945 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45945 On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 10:38:43 -0700, Harry Putnam writes: > Josh Huber writes: > > I was considering that phenomena one day. I live in a 7 unit > apartment building. Even that small number, in one week, accumulates a > very large pile of junk mail. And that is only what gets left in the > common bin. Not what people collect from there personal boxes. > > I began to wonder what kind of tonnage would be involved if one were > to measure a weeks worth of that crap across the entire US. > It a bit frightening... Seems it should be stopped by law somehow. > > It's one small source (compared to all trash) that could be done away > with easily. Advertising does serve a purpose. It does tell you of goods and services that you may be interested. For example, a Qwest phone call made me realize that I should look around at long distance plans.... Which reduced my phone bill by a factor of 3! I also just moved 1700 miles 2 months ago. Again, advertising circulars were useful; they told me about local places I may be interested in going to. Advertising by itself isn't bad.. Unwanted communication wasting your time is. Scott