[discuss] Another couple of items

[Jorge Amodio]

SPAM, bulk junk mail, telemarketing calls, etc, IMHO exist because there
are people paying for it. When the ROI does not justify the marketing
expense anymore it will go away... I remember getting lots of faxes at some
time.

One alternative is to take actions to increase the costs of sending SPAM.

-J


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

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> On 13-Jan-14 20:04, Rinalia Abdul Rahim wrote:
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>> Avri,
>>
>> Can you provide examples for "4. Issues that while of public interest
>> regardless, are transformed by the Internet"?
>>
>> Rinalia
>>
>
> Hmm, without taking into account Parminder's recasting of the issue back
> to 3.  Or Brian's explanations as I have not not thought them through yet.
>  And with the liability of proving how clueless I am:
>
> The first possible example that comes to my academic mind is SPAM.
>
> Certainly Bulk email is a fact of life and was for a long time before the
> Internet (though I admit I have not done research on bulk mail and when it
> began - it might have been the Sear's catalog back in the 19th century).
>  It has been a public interest issue and in the form of Junk mail
> discussions is still an issue for many people and institutions. And may
> even be an international issue at the UPU (Universal Postal Union) for all
> I know.
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