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RE: More on spam



> 
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:28:57AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> > Spam is just marketing.
> 
>     SWEN isn't marketing.  Part of this is about SWEN (and 
> other similar viruses/worms).
> 

SWEN is about propogating a spam delivery system.

> > Marketing is about making people buy stuff.
> > Terrorism is about scaring people.
>  
> > imo we need to move towards a 'deny all else' information world and 
> > away from the largely 'permit all, except' world.
> 
>     And why would we do that?  Scared of a little spam?

No I'm not scared at all.  Why do people keep using these extreme emotional
terms; Fear, Scare, Terror, to describe annoyances.

I don't see spam, I don't see popups.




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