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Omega World Travel has challenged this article (see their attorneys' letter below). TIME regrets characterizing Omega and its subsidiary as "spammers" without making it clear that "spammer" is merely an allegation by Mumma and that the company's e-mails had complied with federal anti-spam laws...
...name you recognize. You take umbrage. You let it be known on your website that the sender is a scurrilous spammer, a clogger of In boxes, a violator of the right to privacy. It is a small gesture yet one you believe is important in the war on spam, and besides, it makes you feel good...
With pornography, sleazy offers and other unsolicited junk filling In boxes at record rates, revenge has blossomed into a righteous cause. But as Mark Mumma, an Internet-services provider and antispam crusader from Oklahoma City, Okla., will tell you, spats over spam can get messy. The recipient's privacy comes into play, but so does the sender's free speech. What states call spam the feds may consider innocuous commercial e-mail. And when spam rage takes over, you, like Mumma, can get sued for calling a spammer a spammer...
...saves a lot of time and stress on your part, not to mention generating some sympathy, goodwill, and possibly flowers from your acquaintances.Other added benefits of this truly economic e-mail system include a chat feature (which can be disabled to prevent unwanted contact with tech-savvy TFs), automatic spam filtering, nearly unlimited storage capacity, and a delightfully exclusive “invitation-only” system of adding new users. E-mails from your FAS account can easily be forwarded to gmail, and you can instruct gmail to respond as though you were using your FAS e-mail address...
...don’t like spam any more than anyone else. Frankly, we wouldn’t like it any better coming from a UC campaign than we would from a V!agra salesperson. But, alas, we are resigned to the fact that dealing with a little more spam and fewer rules would be a boon to the health and fairness of UC elections...