Re: Letter

None wrote:

If anything, "email" has proved to be precisely the opposite of your
worries. And in any case that's mostly academic to the discussion
because I clearly stated that this affected only bulk, commercial email,
and needed a workable "opt out" attached to it. If the

Commercial Email should NEVER be sent un-solicited, period. All commercial
Email should ALWAYS be "double opt in" to insure that ONLY the people who
want it will get it.

Can't disagree with you there. In fact I said right from the start that
the ONLY valid argument against this "Pay-Per-SPAM" scheme was one based
on the premise that all SPAM is evil.

The "opt out" thingy was more a matter of living in the real world where
we all know SPAM will prevail... a common sense, middle ground addition
to a less than Utopian situation. ;)


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