On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 07:31:01PM +1200, Oliver Jones wrote:
For example, say someone was overtly generous and very rich (and perhaps slightly crazy). If they send 2 million email messages to randomly harvested addresses giving them information on how to get a $100 would this mail necessarily be unwanted by the recipients. In today's environment people would be highly suspicious of this email but for the sake of argument imagine that the offer was legit. Why should this behaviour be illegal?
because the recipient has no means of deciding wether it is legitimate or not. if only one such offer was made, then thousends of other fake offers will imitate it, and because there was a legitimate one many people will fall for the fake ones.
[ ... ] People would be falling over themselves to get on this mailing list.
and hurt each other in the process. greetings, martin. -- looking for a job doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/