Re: opt-out registry comments
Bretton Vine <[email protected]>
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On 2011/08/02 12:44 PM, andre wrote: > In SA, no law can legalise theft. And yet tax law predates all modern societies. In the minds of many tax is legalised theft. > Really? Taking money from consumers without their agreement > and forcing them to pay for your marketing is somehow justifyable > in your mind? My marketing? Look, you've expressed a strong emotional response to spam, yet seem short on actual data to support the outburst. I too felt felt rather silly after doing the math, so I empathise. Now lets gets good data and work from there. If spam costs recipients money and time to receive (or unsubscribe) then how much exactly? According to my calculations, which can only be improved on with additional contributions, it's an average of R56million/year to the whole in bandwidth charges. > I doubt if there are many people on this list that do not understand that > a spammer takes money from the average consumer receiving his spam > as the consumer has to pay for bandwidth. Okay, so how much exactly? -- Bretton openpgp: http://bretton.hivemind.net/bretton_vine.asc Co-existence / or no existence. - Piet Hein _______________________________________________ IOZ mailing list [email protected] http://lists.internet.org.za/mailman/listinfo/ioz