Comment Re:Is taxation best? (Score 1) 592
I think it safe to say that most spammers send out more than 5,000 email's a year. Perhaps setting that as a top limit of what defines a person as a spammer. Just a thought
The problem with giving the 'spammer' label to anyone who sends 5000 (or any arbitrary number) is that you will label people sending legitmate emails that are easily at or above that number.
My business partners and I share, via email, anything that is safe to be emailed. We even invoice our customers via email. On a slow day, the company sends 30 emails per day (not counting internal messages)...if we only work 300 days per year (yeah right), our company is sending 9000 legit emails per year. How can you call that spam (other than the fact that nobody really wants to be sent an invoice of any kind, it's still not unsolicited)? Could you imagine what kind of email traffic *LARGE* corporations have between each other? MY guess is it beats your limit on a weekly basis, if not daily.
I agree with you that spam should just be made illegal, outright - I can only dream of that happening to snail mail junk too. The question of defining spam/spammers and the enforcement of any regulation/law (my own draconian urgings aside) is something that needs to be addressed by the 'experts'.
The problem with giving the 'spammer' label to anyone who sends 5000 (or any arbitrary number) is that you will label people sending legitmate emails that are easily at or above that number.
My business partners and I share, via email, anything that is safe to be emailed. We even invoice our customers via email. On a slow day, the company sends 30 emails per day (not counting internal messages)...if we only work 300 days per year (yeah right), our company is sending 9000 legit emails per year. How can you call that spam (other than the fact that nobody really wants to be sent an invoice of any kind, it's still not unsolicited)? Could you imagine what kind of email traffic *LARGE* corporations have between each other? MY guess is it beats your limit on a weekly basis, if not daily.
I agree with you that spam should just be made illegal, outright - I can only dream of that happening to snail mail junk too. The question of defining spam/spammers and the enforcement of any regulation/law (my own draconian urgings aside) is something that needs to be addressed by the 'experts'.
