Re: ActiveAgent
Richard Gaskin - Fourth World (Ambassador@FourthWorld.com)
Fri, 8 Nov 96 14:37:25 -0000
>ActiveAgent *has* no positive potential. It is a tool designed to
>facilitate email spammming of people with webpages - which is *in and of
>itself a bad thing*. In sheer self-defense I am engaged in *removing* all
>mailto: links from all web sites I am responsible for - as a direct result
>of things like ActiveAgent flooding my mailboxes. I receive *many* email
>spams a day from people running bots similar to ActiveAgentas the
>webmaster for a few dozen websites - a situation that can only get worse.
>The direct consequence of this will be the removal of *anything* on the
>sites that can be used by a robot to generate email to me.
You're working too hard, and potentially making it needlessly difficult
for your customers and clients toget ahold of you.
Far simpler is to push your elected representatives to put an end to
unsolicited bulk email advertising, just as they did 10 years ago with
unsolicited bulk faxing.
If we all make this request of our representatives, we'll see a permanent
end to this problem by the middle of next year.
- Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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