I know I was swerving officer, but really I'm not drunk, you see my crack pipe got hot and then I dropped it, so as I was picking that up my loaded 9mm slipped out, and I had to bend down for that. Before I knew it I was over the centerline, but really you gotta believe me I haven't benn drinking, If my Parole officer hears I was drinking I'm in big trouble.
"I can't signen zie papers you've broken my fingers..." Should I trust the security certificate from a hacker site?...Windows XP (gasp a windows user on/.!) prompted me and asked if it should trust them, I'm guess its ok, but I have this policy about handing my house keys to self-proclaimed burglars...
Heil hitler, and toss another email on the fire eh? I thought/. readers were a bit more forward thinking than they have demonstrated in this thread.
Is unsoclicted direct mail in your regular mailbox "tresspass to chattels" as well?
I understand and sympathize with those affected by the deluge of fraudlent offers, forged headers and those that send 1 mil+ mails/day. But I draw the line when honest businessmen, arent allowed to send even one unsolicted advertisement. If the offer is bonafide, the headers aren't forged, it's not bulk, the message is clearly marked ADV:, and requests not to recieve future mail are honored... the commercial mail should be allowed! Any attmept to prohobit such mail sets a dangerous anti-capitalistic precedent. The freaks who want to live in a society with 0 advertising are welcome too, try moving to the backwoods of Africa. and oh by-the-way you probably wont have to worry about recieving any of my mails there either.
I own a small IT business, and I occaisonally send out 20 mails or so to people whom I don't know but who I think may be interested in my services.. Is this spam? If so, how about 1, where does legitimate marketing end and spam begin?
How come noone complains about the direct mail they recieve on slashdot? to my thinking it takes more effort to throw away a direct mail piece than to click delete to a spam....
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I know I was swerving officer, but really I'm not drunk, you see my crack pipe got hot and then I dropped it, so as I was picking that up my loaded 9mm slipped out, and I had to bend down for that. Before I knew it I was over the centerline, but really you gotta believe me I haven't benn drinking, If my Parole officer hears I was drinking I'm in big trouble.
"I can't signen zie papers you've broken my fingers..." Should I trust the security certificate from a hacker site?...Windows XP (gasp a windows user on /.!) prompted me and asked if it should trust them, I'm guess its ok, but I have this policy about handing my house keys to self-proclaimed burglars...
Heil hitler, and toss another email on the fire eh? I thought /. readers were a bit more forward thinking than they have demonstrated in this thread.
Is unsoclicted direct mail in your regular mailbox "tresspass to chattels" as well?
I understand and sympathize with those affected by the deluge of fraudlent offers, forged headers and those that send 1 mil+ mails/day. But I draw the line when honest businessmen, arent allowed to send even one unsolicted advertisement. If the offer is bonafide, the headers aren't forged, it's not bulk, the message is clearly marked ADV:, and requests not to recieve future mail are honored... the commercial mail should be allowed! Any attmept to prohobit such mail sets a dangerous anti-capitalistic precedent. The freaks who want to live in a society with 0 advertising are welcome too, try moving to the backwoods of Africa. and oh by-the-way you probably wont have to worry about recieving any of my mails there either.
I own a small IT business, and I occaisonally send out 20 mails or so to people whom I don't know but who I think may be interested in my services.. Is this spam? If so, how about 1, where does legitimate marketing end and spam begin? How come noone complains about the direct mail they recieve on slashdot? to my thinking it takes more effort to throw away a direct mail piece than to click delete to a spam....