This is not a civil liberties issue. This is about the formation of a ClueNet, a network of people who know what they're doing wrt spam. It's formed by subtracting out those elements on the Net who clearly don't (by which I mean Media3, rather than Peacefire). If your provider isn't in the ClueNet and you want to talk to other people who are, you find another provider. This is not hard to understand.
The definitions of spam which you complain about are given as possible definitions. The relative advantages of each definition are given in the paper, as you would know, had you read it instead of leaping to the defence of your company.
To those who argue that direct mailing should be easily opted out of, consider this: how easy is it to opt out of the
existing direct mail offers you receieve via snail mail? It usually takes some real effort. Why can't this apply to the
web?
The paper (did you read that, by the way?) spells out the problems associated with spam. Most of those do not exist in other forms of direct marketing.
Is it truly so awful that Amazon tries to find other things you're interested in based on your interests, and lets
you know?
No, that's fine, as long as I have already given my consent and am able to stop those messages with a single request.
Direct marketing is as American as apple pie. The Internet is no
different.
Yes, cos everyone on the Internet is an American, right?
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This is not a civil liberties issue. This is about the formation of a ClueNet, a network of people who know what they're doing wrt spam. It's formed by subtracting out those elements on the Net who clearly don't (by which I mean Media3, rather than Peacefire). If your provider isn't in the ClueNet and you want to talk to other people who are, you find another provider. This is not hard to understand.
The definitions of spam which you complain about are given as possible definitions. The relative advantages of each definition are given in the paper, as you would know, had you read it instead of leaping to the defence of your company.
To those who argue that direct mailing should be easily opted out of, consider this: how easy is it to opt out of the existing direct mail offers you receieve via snail mail? It usually takes some real effort. Why can't this apply to the web?
The paper (did you read that, by the way?) spells out the problems associated with spam. Most of those do not exist in other forms of direct marketing.
Is it truly so awful that Amazon tries to find other things you're interested in based on your interests, and lets you know?
No, that's fine, as long as I have already given my consent and am able to stop those messages with a single request.
Direct marketing is as American as apple pie. The Internet is no different.
Yes, cos everyone on the Internet is an American, right?