Spamming

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 08:09 PM 12/22/98 -0500, Steve Cohen wrote:
 
>My ISP also filters spam.  LIke that in IE, it's off by default.  You can
>turn it on or you can configure it in all sorts of ways - none of them user
>friendly.  But if you turn it on, they're much more restrictive than this.
>They not only block stuff that looks like spam, they have very rigorous
>standards.  Amazon.com fell afoul of them because they did not say on their
>form that if you gave your email address it would be used for promotional
>purposes.  Amazon even snailmailed to all their customers on my ISP asking
>them to protest it.  Mcs.net wouldn't back down.  They'll also block
>**everything** from sites that merely allow spam to issue from them.  I
>periodically check a file of blocked emails to see if they blocked anyone I
>want email from, and I have to lift the filter for these individuals.  It's
>a bit of a pain, but so is spam.

AMAZON.COM *does* spam its customers. We all know that the founder of MCS.NET,
Karl Denninger, is a bit of a cantankerous fellow at times, but in this case,
he's right.

Spam is the reason I've switched my book business from AMAZON.COM them to two 
other companies: Stacy's and Barns and No Bulls. I likewise am preparing to 
abandon the Eudora e-mail client because Qualcomm spams its users. Hopefuly,
if enough people do likewise, these jerks will get the hint.

--Brett