At 11:15 8/01/02 +1300, Andy Linton wrote:
I think you're fighting a losing battle in many ways here.
Maybe so, but...
The model for advertising on the Internet was touted as 'ads on web pages' with click through etc. It's not exactly been a raging success - I'd hypothesise that these spammers you're upset about are the Satchi and Satchi of tomorrow. It's not going away and you have to learn to ignore it just like you have to ignore the ads on TV.
Here I disagree. I don't think anyone should need to learn to ignore spam with explicit pictures being shoved in their face every day. It's one thing to visit a website of your own free will and then see an advert you dont like, its quite another to receive it unsolicited. To use your own analogy its like TV advertisers being able to force you to watch their ads even when the TV is turned OFF. :) It's all too easy for people to throw their hands in the air and just give up in the face of what seems like a losing battle, but as soon as we do that, the spammers have won. Regards, Simon - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog