Re: Restricting the list

["John W. Noerenberg" <[e-mail]>]

At 8:38 AM 2/6/96, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:
>But the ads in magazines you get reduce the cost of the magazine to you,
>ads in mailing lists have no similar benefit.

I was specifically not referring to magazine ads, but to separate items I
get in the mail.  In fact, it takes more energy to delete individual items
of junk mail than junk email. :-)

>Furthermore, the
>incremental cost of emailing you something is at least one and probably
>more than three orders of magnitude cheaper than physical mail.  Without
>some back pressure, you should expect to be completely flooded with junk
>email.

Nevertheless, this is a possible conclusion.  I don't think it's likely,
anymore than it is likely my postal mailbox will be filled to overflowing
with junk.  I figure I'm just not that interesting a target for every
possible unsolicited message.

john noerenberg
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