RE: Compuserve Hypocrisy

<i>> Not to beat a dead horse, but I just picked up a little tid bit about</i>
<i>> CompuServe's policies on unsolicited e-mail...</i>

<i>> They are begining to block e-mail from sources that are sending commercial</i>
<i>> mailings to their members.</i>

<i>> But, I just read this on Compuserve's mail/magazine preference information</i>
<i>> window.</i>

<i>><<<<<In our continuous effort to provide our customers with the best</i>
possible
<i>> service, we occasionally utilize our membership list for mailings. ...</i>
From
<i>> time to time, special CompuServe mailings may be sent. CompuServe also</i>
<i>> sometimes makes its membership mailing lists available to other companies</i>
who
<i>> wish to send our members information about their products or services.</i>

<i>> Most members enjoy receiving these mailings, however, you have the option</i>
of
<i>> including or excluding your name from these various mailing lists. *Your</i>
<i>> name will be included on all lists unless you specify otherwise.* ...</i>
<i>>>>>></i>

Uh, Sanford, what I believe you missed in your zeal to point fingers is that
CS is talking about paper-based mailings, not email. Sure, CS, and many
others, sell their lists to other companies. And they're right, many of us
CS'ers enjoy receiving the *snailmail* information...since it doesn't cost
us anything to receive it...or to discard it if not interested.

Now, if CS sold my CompuServe account number to someone, and I had to *pay*
to retrieve, read and discard unwanted mail, I'd be bullshit.

Does *that* sound familiar?

In all the years that I've had a CS account, I have *never* received an
unsolicited commercial email. I did get an email from a long lost
girlfriend, but that's a different story ;-)

Isn't this horse dead yet?

Just my .02.

Lee

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