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Posted by PDAENVY on 01-24-2001 07:30 PM:

Take the Boulder Pledge:

"Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited email message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community."

The idea here is to take profitability out of spam.

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Posted by homer on 01-25-2001 02:18 AM:

There is error in that logic, though. A Spammer only needs one buyer out of every few thousand emails sent to make it profitable.

Nice idea, but I don't think it's going to go anywhere.

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Posted by Hoser_back_home on 01-25-2001 03:29 AM:

reminds me of that email last year asking people to not buy gas on a specific date, hoping that a whole day of zero sales would force the industry to lower prices....or something to that effect.

there's ALWAYS somebody out there that doesn't co-operate.

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Posted by JHromadka on 01-25-2001 03:39 AM:

Arrow

quote:
Originally posted by Hoser_in_USA
reminds me of that email last year asking people to not buy gas on a specific date, hoping that a whole day of zero sales would force the industry to lower prices....or something to that effect.

there's ALWAYS somebody out there that doesn't co-operate.



I think that happened in Britain, IIRC, after a combo of rising gas prices because of a shortage.

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