Bridgetopics

[billw55]

Gosh guys.

 

Sure, nobody likes email spam. But it is so ubiquitous, and so simply dealt with, that I find it not worth getting my hackles up. You probably spent 50 times as long to type up all your grumbling as it took to click "delete" or "spam".

 

Besides, if there is another worthwhile bridge service out there, then so much the better. And if my inbox spam increases from 20 per week to 21 - I think I can live with that.

[nige1]

Gosh guys. Sure, nobody likes email spam. But it is so ubiquitous, and so simply dealt with, that I find it not worth getting my hackles up. You probably spent 50 times as long to type up all your grumbling as it took to click "delete" or "spam".Besides, if there is another worthwhile bridge service out there, then so much the better. And if my inbox spam increases from 20 per week to 21 - I think I can live with that.

Even innocent-seeming spam is the thin end of a wedge. Spam is a minor annoyance to billw55 but a major irritant to some like me. I have poor sight and wading through spam is a nuisance. I've almost stopped reading rec.games bridge because of spam..But I think we should all be concerned for obvious reasons. Spam dominates internet traffic and costs us all money and time. It is responsible for scams, viruses, phishing and botnets. It hurts the old and vulnerable.

[mgoetze]

I get a list of email addresses from somewhere, and I send them all an email.

 

[...]

 

I get another list of email addresses from somewhere else.

 

[...]

 

Later I get a third list of addresses. [...]

 

In other words, you are a spammer. Being a good spammer and only sending each person whose email you harvested one of each email doesn't make you less of a spammer at all.