Re: [Asrg] Shannon Jacob's article on spam

From: "Shannon Jacobs" <shanen@acm.org>
>There are plenty of things wrong
>with snail mail, but it does work quite effectively in limiting the volume
>of physical spam we receive

Many people cite the lack of substantial ammounts of Snail-mail as a proof 
that an economic sollution to spam can work. I recieve as much Snail-mail 
spam, as i do E-mail spam.

About 2 years ago I added up the postage of all the Snail-Spam i recieved in 
a typical month. I found that Bulk Snail mailers spend over $200 per month 
in postage to send me advertisements. The volume of mail (as percieved) has 
not decreased since then. My situation is probably at the extreme end of the 
spectrum as my family has lived at the same address for over 50 years, but 
advertising in general is a multi-billion dollar per year industry. To think 
that advertisers won't pay money to send email is (i feel) an assumption 
without sufficient proof.

John Fenley

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