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> > Actually, Karl would be the first to point out that often spammers don't pay > .. they hook up for their free trial period and get the boot a few days > later. > Then companies need to look at wether free trial accounts should be able to send email. I think most trial are more useful to test connectivity, try the chat rooms etc. How many need email? > > The whole point of spam being wrong is that since it is a cooperative > process, it costs the recipient to receive it. (Contrast this to bulk postal > mail, which only costs the sender anything.) > I would guess that the thousands (millions) of tonnes of junk mail cost us nothing to put into landfill sites, or incinerate... Matt. -- Matt Ryan - Network Engineer [email protected] Planet OnLine Ltd, The White House, Tel: +44 113 2345566 Melbourne Street, Leeds, LS2 7PS, UK Fax: +44 113 2240003
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