ave you ever gotten an So here is an explanation that
unsolicited e-mail message everyone should understand.
(UCE)? Well, unless you Unless you have totally 'FREE'
signed on to the Internet using access to your e-mail, that is:
your e-mail account about 30
seconds ago, chances are that you you don't pay for access.
have. you don't pay a phone bill.
you don't pay an electric bill.
Unsolicited, 'junk' e-mail is
almost the same thing as getting then this form of e-mail costs
junk mail in your mailbox at the receiver more than it costs
home. There are two main the sender. In some instances,
differences though. such as on AOL and other online
subscription services, it can
It cost the sender only pennies cost you big time. Every single
to distribute hundreds or minute a subscriber is online
thousands of these messages. using these services costs them
$$$$.
It can cost the receiver more to
receive it then it did for the The time it takes to open a
sender to send it. message and just scan it quickly
to determine if you will read it,
Number 1, above, is respond to it or delete it may
self-explanatory. Number 2, not seem like much, but when you
however, is a little harder to add up all those messages at the
understand for those who swear by end of the month, they can really
unsolicited e-mail, which is hurt your pocket book.
often called 'bulk' e-mail and
'spamming'. Articles like this one have been
written by the hundreds, perhaps
the thousands, and still 'junk' honest, some unsolicited e-mail I
e-mail continues. Can we rid have received personally has been
ourselves of it? My guess is no! very valuable; some has been a
There are software packages total waste of my time and
created almost every day, trying effort.
to block unsolicited e-mail. And
almost every day a software I personally do not believe in
package to negate them is created using unsolicited e-mail for any
as well. reason. I hope, as the Net
matures, that others will see the
Is it right or wrong? I only know wisdom in using e-mail in a
it breaks every rule of responsible manner.
'netiquette' according to many
people on the Internet. But to be
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