3 ms·
You're right - I thought that you'd made one fatal error (sender registries) when you'd actually made a different one (introducers). > spam is generally unders
by anamax 2y ago
You're right - I thought that you'd made one fatal error (sender registries) when you'd actually made a different one (introducers).
> spam is generally understood to be unsolicited email
Not so fast. If spam is universally disliked and should be eradicated, it can't include all unsolicited email.
That's because people LIKE some unsolicited email. Unless you can distinguish unsolicited email that someone will like from unsolicited email that they won't like ...
FWIW, you come across like the "advertising should be banned" people. (That's another group that confuses the existence of a problem with the existence of a solution that doesn't have any downsides. They fixate on their solution and try to define-away its downsides.)
Advertising is a lot like spam. It is product information. If you don't care about the information, it is unwanted, but if you do.... The thing is, there's always someone who cares.
FWIW, every time I've physically met someone who claims to be anti-advertising, said someone has happily displayed several pieces of advertising for products that said someone liked. When I point that out, "that's different" or "I don't mean that kind of advertising."
- naasking 2y ago> That's because people LIKE some unsolicited email. Unless you can distinguish unsolicited email that someone will like from unsolicited email that they won't like ... Then they can opt into a service that sends them products they might like. Defaulting to opt-in, which is the current situation, is always terrible. Spam consists of a huge fraction of mail sent over the Internet, and vast majority don't want it, and it's a huge security problem (phishing, viruses etc.). If Gmail implements this kind of protocol, then they can opt you into their advertising list as part of the sign up process.