From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 24 15:44:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81AA537B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:44:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from olmec.nighttide.net (jasper.nighttide.net [207.5.141.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18ACB43F3F for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:44:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Received: from olmec.nighttide.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olmec.nighttide.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1ONitC9050322; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:44:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Received: from localhost (darren@localhost) by olmec.nighttide.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h1ONisNV050319; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:44:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) X-Authentication-Warning: olmec.nighttide.net: darren owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:44:54 -0500 (EST) From: Darren Henderson To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: when are unsolicited sales okay? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Can an unsolicited sales pitch ever be appropriate? Never. Period. That does not preclude businesses with whom you have a on going relationship with sending you mails if you give the OK, but the > Some people and businesses don't like door-to-door sales. (I don't mind > the very infrequent religious, chiropractic or vote-seeker coming to my > door.) Most of us will tolerate quite a bit until it becomes intrusive. In most communities there is a brake on door-to-door solicitations - you usually are required to at least tell them you are going to be in the area doing x, y or z. We don't get many door to door callers but it #$@#$ me off every time one shows up - especially the religious types, (talk about presumptuous and insulting). > I usually don't care about the tens of sales letters I receive each week; > sometimes I receive something interesting. I do care that I waste some > time recycling. And I do mind that natural resources are probably being > wasted. SPAM is intrusive - for the most part junk mail is not - and you don't have to pay to have it delivered. Key concepts that most spamers do not recognize (actually I think they do but just don't care). > I don't receive unsolicited faxes anymore. But a few years ago, I used to We finally had to shut down my wife's fax line - dozens of pages of cruise ship, toner ads, etc. You can't get the phone company interested and while we at one time almost had the government on they either lost interest or we were cast adrift in the bureaucracy. > Anyways, when are unsolicited sales okay? Never. ______________________________________________________________________ Darren Henderson darren@nighttide.net Help fight junk e-mail, visit http://www.cauce.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message