Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
Posts: 790

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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Jeff

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 1683

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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Registered: Nov 1999
Location: bright side of the moon.
Posts: 996

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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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Texan in Calgary for a while
Posts: 1361

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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.

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