Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Sun, Sep 28 2003
Spam, Bam, Thank You Ma'am
This internet-draft from the Internet Engineering Task Force does a really good job of laying out the difficulties for those who would rid the email world of the problem of spam. I don't ever buy any goods or services via telemarketing, junk snail mail, or spam. So whatever they do will not affect my buying habits one way or the other. What does bother me is the tide of spam I get with sexually explicit subject lines, or even with regular-sounding subjects that, when opened, reveal sexual photos. Come on, people. How do you know that a child isn't receiving your spam? I can hit the delete button all day because I know you're selling something. But I've been given the understanding that's it's just plain illegal (not to mention immoral and abusive) to send sexual communication to minors. And another thing. In your haste to hook people to buy tickets to your little fantasy, you might have at least fired up the old brain cells to be responsible enough to transmit photos in which the participants are practicing safe-sex. Can you at least see that?
Maybe not. There is that old joke about going blind.
posted at: 09:30 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
This internet-draft from the Internet Engineering Task Force does a really good job of laying out the difficulties for those who would rid the email world of the problem of spam. I don't ever buy any goods or services via telemarketing, junk snail mail, or spam. So whatever they do will not affect my buying habits one way or the other. What does bother me is the tide of spam I get with sexually explicit subject lines, or even with regular-sounding subjects that, when opened, reveal sexual photos. Come on, people. How do you know that a child isn't receiving your spam? I can hit the delete button all day because I know you're selling something. But I've been given the understanding that's it's just plain illegal (not to mention immoral and abusive) to send sexual communication to minors. And another thing. In your haste to hook people to buy tickets to your little fantasy, you might have at least fired up the old brain cells to be responsible enough to transmit photos in which the participants are practicing safe-sex. Can you at least see that?
Maybe not. There is that old joke about going blind.
posted at: 09:30 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
