| Art Alexion on 25 Feb 2006 16:30:32 -0000 |
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Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: >On Sat, February 25, 2006 10:35 am, Alexander Birch wrote: > > >>On 2/25/06, Cosmin Nicolaescu <cos@camelot.homelinux.com> wrote: >><snip> >> >> >>>And collecting more than 1 mil addresses in 7 days (and then perhaps >>>more?) certanly doesn't seem to have any other use than .. spam. >>> >>> >>It doesn't seem to be email harvesting. >> >>In the olden days, when people sent you unwanted mail to your house, it >>was >>called junk mail. >> >> >> > >That's true, but in an online context junkmail == spam. The fact that I >used "spam" does not mean that it's illegal. There is legal spam (mostly >when the user actually has a possiblity to unsubscribe). > >But I might be wrong on this, it would be nice if we get some more info on >what the use would be. > There are a lot of legal ways to make money at the expense of the privacy and annoyance of others, just as there a lot of illegal things that cause tenuous harm. legal != ethical != moral -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html Key for signed PDFs available at http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________ Attachment:
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