The Webfairy
Spamming won't save America, sheesh
Wed Jun 25 15:27:04 2003
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The notion of everybody emailing thousands of people, spreading patriot sentiment like chainletters is pretty awful. Harvesting addresses to do this with is criminal.

This will NOT help our cause.
Mass mailings clog mailservers and make everybody's mail less efficient. ISPs are constantly challenged to protect their mailservers from spam.

No matter what the message of the spam, whether it is penis enlargement, get rich quick, or impeach Bush, the only real effect of spam is to clog up mail servers and disk space, leading to delayed delivers or loss of legitimate messages stuck in a mailque behind a spam run.

The spam problem is controlled currently by blackholing spam domains. If patriotic citizens decided to take up spamming, the equipment that makes our communication possible would be under an uncontrollable assault.

Forward messages to friends and family. People you know personally. Spamming to lists of harvested addresses cheapens the message and puts under assault the very systems that make our resistance possible.

• Email lists — Doctor, Wed Jun 25 15:38
• "unsubscribe me"? — rainesco, Wed Jun 25 15:46

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