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But it happens and nothing will stop it. The concerned party already recognizes that by virtue of using tools to push them away. That tool being buggy is the pr
by randomdata 4y ago
But it happens and nothing will stop it. The concerned party already recognizes that by virtue of using tools to push them away. That tool being buggy is the problem here.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoRegulation would help punish the variations of this that aren't already illegal spam industries. People are already taking it upon themselves to take spam texters to small-claims court, due to texting regulations.
- randomdata 4y agoThat's all well and good, but the specific request was for marketers to stop emailing, by way of GitHub, him and other developers using Gmail because Gmail has a bug that Google seemingly has no interest in fixing. Per the de facto weak car analogy, this is like asking the guy on the sidewalk flipping a business sign around in a creative fashion to go back inside because his Ford has known issue with the breaks, with no present fix, that may cause him to intersect with the guy on the sidewalk. Perhaps the law should take sidewalk sign flippers off the street. Perhaps one should take the sign flipper to small claims court should they crash into him when the breaks do fail. But that's beyond the topic at hand.
- micromacrofoot 4y agomy original comment wasn't addressing the topic at hand, but solicitation as a concept
- randomdata 4y agoI know, but I was calling out that the original topic was fine. There was no need to change it. You could have always started a new thread if you had a new topic to discuss. Why hijack an unrelated discussion where nobody cares about your pet subject?
- micromacrofoot 4y agobecause I disagree with this statement: > but when on the public internet you kind of accept existing in public I do not accept this