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It's time for these clowns to wake up

Optin and the rest of the cretins need to realize that for every sap they entice to their sites with their stupid advertisements there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of others who have to delete their messages, day in and day out. Why should the majority of us suffer spam so that these parasites can make a buck?

We don't want to hear about your great bargains, super deals, or fantastic offers.

We don't want your coupons, freebies (as if there's ever such a thing as anything free), or promotional gimmicks.

We don't want to take some dumb survey (geared only at getting our contact info to then be passed along to all who want to send us crud) or enter into some idiotic sweepstakes.

It isn't your "First Amendment right" to send out millions of moronic junk messages clogging INBOXES around the globe, so please stop whining that the Constitution protects your obsession with hounding and harassing anyone whose e-mail address falls into your hands. Mail servers and the contents thereof are private property, so it's no different than if you came into my home without my permission to demand I buy a vacuum cleaner from you. You can snivel about your free speech all the way downtown in the paddy wagon while you sit there in handcuffs.

We don't want to have to "opt out" of your mailing lists to be left alone - ironic that "Optin" is the name of the organization when these companies fight tooth and nail, kicking and screaming against the concept of e-mail recipients having to "opt in" to begin receiving their junk mail (and by "opt in" I DON'T mean signing up for some other unrelated service and forgetting to uncheck the tiny, miniscule little box which says "I agree to be blown back to the Stone Age by spam and stupid marketing offers hurled at me from this site and all of it's many, many, obnoxious affiliates" - I mean literally opting in where you ask them to send you these messages because you are, apparently, a bored masochist without any legitimate mail from family or friends to clutter your INBOX). No, in their universe, it's up to you to "opt out" if you don't care for their spam - they get to send you whatever they like, in their bizarre little self-entitled world. And good luck getting them to comply with a mailing list removal. Funny how if you actually request their mails they will start blasting you right away within hours or minutes, but actually getting them to stop can take days or weeks, according to their instructions. Isn't it odd how someone can be added to an e-mail list instanteously, but taking them off said list requires so much more effort? They've actually managed to reverse the scientific principle that it's easier to destroy than to create, and Newton should be notified at once.

I applaud Judge Armstrong and hope that her judicial colleagues follow in her wake. If they use e-mail then I'm sure they have had enough of this stupidity as well.

Posted by: mreilly19   Posted on: 07/01/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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