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Have you ever gotten an unsolicited e-mail message (UCE)? Well,
unless you signed on to the Internet using your e-mail account
about 30 seconds ago, chances are that you have.
Unsolicited, 'junk' e-mail is almost the same thing as getting
junk mail in your mailbox at home. There are two main
differences though.
It cost the sender only pennies to distribute hundreds or
thousands of these messages.
It can cost the receiver more to receive it then it did for the
sender to send it.
Number 1, above, is self-explanatory. Number 2, however, is a
little harder to understand for those who swear by unsolicited
e-mail, which is often called 'bulk' e-mail and 'spamming'.
So here is an explanation that everyone should understand.
Unless you have totally 'FREE' access to your e-mail, that is:
you don't pay for access. you don't pay a phone bill. you don't
pay an electric bill.
then this form of e-mail costs the receiver more than it costs
the sender. In some instances, such as on AOL and other online
subscription services, it can cost you big time. Every single
minute a subscriber is online using these services costs them
$$$$.
The time it takes to open a message and just scan it quickly to
determine if you will read it, respond to it or delete it may
not seem like much, but when you add up all those messages at
the end of the month, they can really hurt your pocket book.
Articles like this one have been written by the hundreds,
perhaps the thousands, and still 'junk' e-mail continues. Can we
rid ourselves of it? My guess is no! There are software packages
created almost every day, trying to block unsolicited e-mail.
And almost every day a software package to negate them is
created as well.
Is it right or wrong? I only know it breaks every rule of
'netiquette' according to many people on the Internet. But to be
honest, some unsolicited e-mail I have received personally has
been very valuable; some has been a total waste of my time and
effort.
I personally do not believe in using unsolicited e-mail for any
reason. I hope, as the Net matures, that others will see the
wisdom in using e-mail in a responsible manner.
Copyright 2003 1DebtFreedom.com
About the author:
Talbert Williams offers debt consolidation, debt reduction,
credit card debt referrals and advice. For more information,
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visit this site: http://www.1debtfreedom.com/conversion
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