<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/4/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin</b> <<a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">martin@ml1.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Tim Emanuel wrote:<br>[---]<br>> Furthermore, I'm sure I'm not the only one reading this who feels about
<br>> entering my email address into a web page to be added to a database.<br><br>You're on one for this list.</blockquote>
<div> </div>
<div>Um, yes, I know, and I chose to be based on a judgement that it was likely to be a responsibly administered one. I might well not make that choice if </div>
<div> </div>
<div>a) I was being requested to add my details, rather than doing it on my own initiative as I did in the case of this list.</div>
<div>b) The request was coming from a company that wanted to make me jump through a hoop in order to give them my custom.</div>
<div> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">And the MAJORITY of internet mail is spam. Look up the stats for yourself.</blockquote>
<div> </div>
<div>Thanks for the patronising lecture, but that doesn't make me any more likely to give my business to a company which uses that as an excuse to assume that mine is.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I'm interested to hear how people can say that a system which assumes everything to be spam doesn't produce false positives.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Tim.</div><br> </div>