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Just theoretically: Why shouldn't we want our postal services to just be a dumb pipe? Isn't it basically a slow internet?
by estel 13y ago
Just theoretically:
Why shouldn't we want our postal services to just be a dumb pipe? Isn't it basically a slow internet?
- icelancer 13y agoBut that's not what is happening. Government subsidiaries (in this case, USPS) are selling lists of addresses to businesses based on one piece of knowledge: Zip codes. You provide tons of mail (literally) and a list of zip codes and USPS sees to it that the junk mail is delivered accordingly. That's not a dumb pipe. ARIN/RIPE or Network Solutions aren't handing over lists of email addresses to spam.