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On Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:42:55 -0400, Gordy Thompson wrote:

>        Huh? Big listservs and majordomos do impose a substantial load on
>the intervening systems, but they're serving a bilaterally useful end with
>their operations: The needs and desires of both senders and recipients are
>being met by their traffic. Commercial bulk email meets the needs and
>desires only of the single sender while imposing the same load on the entire
>infrastructure.

I don't mean to appear to rise to the defense of Cyber Promotions, but it's certainly
not the case that bulk email only meets the needs of the sender. Certainly, there
are _some_ recipients who want to receive these messages, however offensive you or I 
may find them.

The problem is that many of the recipients don't want to receive them. This would not
be a practical problem if Cyber Promotions's opt-out feature actually worked or if,
preferably, it went to an opt-in system instead.

Mark

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