First of all, the doubleclick mail the article talks about is not SPAM, by my definition. It comes from 'legitimate' companies, and really is opt-in. It is plain old-fashioned direct marketing, and it's not going to go away.
SPAM on the other hand is the message I receved this morning "...because you have expressed an interest in making money with eBay and or on the Internet - Make $750 a day!"
It does raise an interesting point considering the declining effectiveness of e-mail marketing given the proliferation of SPAM. It is just another example of how spammers' indiscriminate activities are at the expense of other parties, and more measureable then ambiguous ISP and mail server resources - the marketing company's bottom-lines. Realizing this, could Doubleclick and other direct marketers *gulp* actually become our allies in fighting SPAM?
Funny, looking at the rotary pictures I was thinking that you know you're old when you used to have a rotary phone hanging in your kitchen.
What you kids probably don't know is that back in the day before digital switching the whole phone system was mechanical. That's why the big cities have area codes like 212 (New York), 213 (L.A.), 215 (Philadelphia), etc. -- less wear and tear on the equipment, gears had to travel father for the higher numbers.
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First of all, the doubleclick mail the article talks about is not SPAM, by my definition. It comes from 'legitimate' companies, and really is opt-in. It is plain old-fashioned direct marketing, and it's not going to go away.
SPAM on the other hand is the message I receved this morning "...because you have expressed an interest in making money with eBay and or on the Internet - Make $750 a day!"
It does raise an interesting point considering the declining effectiveness of e-mail marketing given the proliferation of SPAM. It is just another example of how spammers' indiscriminate activities are at the expense of other parties, and more measureable then ambiguous ISP and mail server resources - the marketing company's bottom-lines. Realizing this, could Doubleclick and other direct marketers *gulp* actually become our allies in fighting SPAM?
Funny, looking at the rotary pictures I was thinking that you know you're old when you used to have a rotary phone hanging in your kitchen.
What you kids probably don't know is that back in the day before digital switching the whole phone system was mechanical. That's why the big cities have area codes like 212 (New York), 213 (L.A.), 215 (Philadelphia), etc. -- less wear and tear on the equipment, gears had to travel father for the higher numbers.
Mild Spoilers in the linked stories, by the way.
Chrisd won't soon live that one down.
I'm on comcast. Never had a problem from 68.80.. (southeast PA)