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Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail
From: Matthew Murphy <mattmurphy () kc rr com>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:17:52 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Larry Seltzer wrote:
What really burns me up about this is that there's no rational reading of the situation in which the amount of spam getting to AOL users increases or decreases (unless Goodmail is wildly incompetent or corrupt, neither of which I'm going to assume). Goodmail is not supposed to decrease spam, it's supposed to decrease false positives. That's all.
The problem of course, with that reading of Goodmail is that Goodmail will in fact decrease false positives. If only because it will decrease total positives. :-) I wholly dispute your claim that "the amount of spam getting to AOL users" won't increase or decrease. The amount of stuff that's blatant spam (i.e., viagra, etc.) probably won't increase. However, the amount of so-called targeted marketing that is based on interests or "business relationships" will likely surge. To most people, that e-mail is still spam. The bottom line is this: no outside agency has any right to decide what e-mail is or is not spam. If I choose to question their decision, I ought to have that right. That means it's my decision to label your "certified" e-mail spam and NOT have my ISP's filter deliver it to me anyway. Further, I also have the right to expect that e-mail will be delivered to me WITHOUT BIAS if I decide that similar e-mail (even if uncertified) is not spam. Goodmail takes control of my inbox away from me. Therefore, it's a TERRIBLE idea. AOL's choice to censor opposition to its misguided proposal (which ultimately screws consumers and only benefits advertisers) only provides further warrant to the claim that AOL will not be inclined to make the best choice for the consumer. - -- "Social Darwinism: Try to make something idiot-proof, nature will provide you with a better idiot." -- Michael Holstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB5444D38 iD8DBQFEQB+Qfp4vUrVETTgRA+LaAJ95HhHxJ6lpL/9CszV8KE0Axj3N7wCfUMHY /2dUGzMuD9LNk/FJwJwM2NA= =ojRB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail, (continued)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Blanchard_Michael (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Andre Ludwig (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Andre Ludwig (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Andre Ludwig (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Blanchard_Michael (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Matthew Murphy (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail John Levine (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Dude VanWinkle (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail der Mouse (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail John Levine (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Brian Loe (Apr 19)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail der Mouse (Apr 19)