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From: alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Junk E-mail
Message-ID: <1991Apr02.090040.831@am.sublink.org>
Date: 2 Apr 91 09:00:40 GMT
References: <1991Mar31.003440.8270@rand.org> <13952@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Apr01.051101.3386@looking.on.ca> <1991Apr1.075621.6297@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <19142@rpp386.cactus.org> <1991Apr01.170812.18489@looking.on.ca>
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brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:

:No, no, no!   We don't want to fight junk E-mail, I think we want to
:encourage it, *if* it is properly classified.   I would much rather have
:junk E-mail than junk paper mail, junk phone calls, junk fax or even TV

...EXCEPT for us poor folks that have to PAY for INcoming mail as well
as OUTgoing!!!  Some of us are spending about 100$ per megabyte for
transantic mail... people who call long-distance to their mail feed
can be in similar situations in North America as well!

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