Re: What's the law on sending unsolicited email

* Mike Scott <usenet.9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> sharky wrote:
> ...
> > In your case a simple pro-active package like ACT would cut spam to
> > nothing (incoming email is quarantined, a email sender to sender saying
> > 'did you send this', and mail released to you when they say yes.
> > Sender is then whitelisted. Spammers never answer the challenge.
>
> Nor would this genuine sender bother if met with such a challenge
> request. I'd just treat any such challenge as I would 'spam'.......

I operate some small Web sites that contain technical articles. As
a consequence of this, I often receive unsolicited email asking for
technical advice. That's fine, but I received a request last week and
spent quite some time writing a useful response. My reply was then
bounced by a challenge-response system, asking me to confirm that I
was a real person. Did I bother? Of course not.

If someone asks me to help them and then doesn't do me the courtesy
of accepting my reply without making me jummp through hoops, it's
a waste of his time and mine. And it makes me less inclined to reply
to such requests in the future.

So, do you want to annoy everyone you write to? Do you want to ask
people for help and never receive any replies? Well, use this
"simple pro-active package like ACT" and cut your incoming email to
zero"!

Mike.
.

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