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MAPS and Experian Settle Lawsuit
dbrower writes: "Experian is trumpeting a settlement with MAPS here, where MAPS agreed not to blackhole them without a court order, and agreed that Experian didn't need to do opt-in. Looks like a loss to me."
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If I sign up for a mailing list, I should NOT have a bunch of nannys insisting that companies waste my time with another verification step.
I appreciate that they are pushing for opt-in standards, but there is a very fine line between looking out for the rights of consumers and looking to "protect" consumers from themselves.
Which do I hate more: people who want to exploit me, or people who want to coddle and protect me, whether I want it or not? Tough choice.
I think I hate the coddlers more. I can always protect myself against exploitation, but I can't always get away from the nannys.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
I'd mod you up if I had the points. Had 'em last week, but not today. Damn.
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
Oh, you vigilantes are so cute when you're mad.
At any point that I am walking down a public street, a salesman could approach me and launch right into a sales pitch. I can dodge around him, turn, say no, something like that...but it's still going to change my initial plan of walking uninhibited down the street.
Yes, spam sucks...but look at the examples you gave of how to ensure a spam-filled mailbox...all of those are like walking down the biggest public street in the world.
But more important than a reason people shouldn't get so incredibly pissed off over spam...the whole concept of black hole lists is just wrong. It's a "kill em all and let god sort em out!" solution. Why should the other users of an ISP with a handful (or even just one) bad user all be punished? They did nothing wrong. In most cases, there's no way they would know such a situation was possible. Use methods that don't punish the innocent, and you'll get a lot more support with stuff like this.
"That's Tron. He fights for the Users."
Either post your non-spamproofed email address in a message here on Slashdot or shut the fuck up. Having a public email address is an absolute necessity for those of us who actually want to meet new people on the Internet. As opposed to those sacks of shit that only want to have a secret little communications club.
The 'net email system was designed to let anyone communicate with anyone else. The problem is that spammers abuse that facility to drown out real communications with their pustulent dreck.
If you actually had more than half a handful of guts in your worthless hide, you'd post your email address here and personally experience being bombarded with crapola by the spammers. If you really have nothing to fear from spam, post your email address. Failure to do so will be considered conclusive proof that you are a repulsive crock of festering goat entrails whose sole accomplishment in their worthless life is shilling for spammers.
Either walk the walk or get the hell off my Internet.
P.S. You'll notice I no longer list an email address for this account. The resulting spam was, and still is, overwhelming. Thank $deity for throw-away Hotmail accounts...
We now conclude your flame. If this had been a polite comment, you would not have felt an overwhelming urge to select -1, Troll.
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Because they should be able to do whatever the dam well please. How would you like it if I sued you for blocking spam mail that I was tring to send to you ?