> > Not all Big Business, just some, like financial industries (loans, > > mortgages and insurance), and then there's the drug industry. It's > > these > > I dunno. I don't really see Citicorp or Bank of A or Chase's head > honchoes gathering together in smoke-filled rooms late at night > cackling, "heh, Microsoft just released another bug-filled version of > IE! We're going to be able to take over another billion > Windows PCs so we can churn mortgage loans!"
I'm wouldn't go so far as to say it's a planned conspiracy, but a tacit understanding that started small when profit potential was noticed, and then grew because it just happened to be good for business, certain industries in particular, and who in their right mind would do something that's not good for business? Trouble is that there is no counter-balance. Lots of talk, but nothing gets done. > The problems that the phishing scams, initiated by spam, are > negligible by comparison, right? Another blight. And then there are matters pertaining to privacy. In a big way, it's all tied together, part of a mentality that that we should be wholesale rejecting about now. <clipped> > > particular industry's turf/share/piece of the pie. Others Biggies have > > different turfs, with relatively little interest/involvement in spam > > by comparison, but they aren't going to complain so long as nobody > > complains about their slices. It's a nice dance in their view, but > > average people lose in several crucially important ways, > and hobbling email's potential is definitely high on that list. > > Spam is only affecting the little guy, right? All those folks at Big > Businesses don't have any interest in being able to communicate via > email, right? They're plenty happy to continue communicating > via FedEx and fax machines, taking days and weeks to do what their competition > does in minutes. I seriously doubt that a Big Baron type logs on and deals with spam like we do, given the availability of any number of defenses that money can buy. It's also arguable that they already have fences around them to keep out the riff-raff, so their experience (and expectation) is different then ours in the first place. Bill > > Makes sense to me. > > Whil _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
