As one of the people who objected to this happening (too strongly for some),
I have a final post on this.
With all due respect, those of you writing in support of receiving these
emails appear to be missing the point that was being made. It's nothing
whatsoever to do with not wanting a laugh in life, or prefering to be
miserable or angry or any other negative emotion that you may wish to
ascribe to us/me. I can assure you that anyone who thinks I can't laugh is
way off base in so many ways that in itself is funny.
I joined this list because it was to do with beading. I didn't join it
because I hoped a total stranger would decide I needed to receive forwards
to enhance my life. Yahoo groups are set up so that our email addresses
appear in each of the posts we make. That doesn't make mine fair game to be
added to a mailing list WITHOUT my permission. It's irrelevant what that
mailing list sends out. Jokes, recipes, adverts for dog grooming, doesn't
matter. Nor does it matter whether the jokes are funny, the recipes tasty,
the dog groomer the best in the land, whether the person's intentions were
good or bad or how many or how few forwards he/she sends. Some felt I was
discourteous and rude in my initial post. I feel the same about people who
don't ask if it's ok to farm my email address. (It isn't BTW, in case
anyone is still in doubt about that - lol).
I'm glad that some of you are enjoy receiving the unsolicited posts. I
respect that. I don't, please respect that. (I never open them so have no
idea of the quality of the content). How about if other members of this
list, realising you weren't bothered about anyone using your personal email
without permission, started sending you forwards in the same manner? Where
would your enjoyment/tolerence/patience end then? At 10 members doing it?
50? 100? 1000? All sending you the same sort of thing, dozens and dozens
of them a day?
As for the delete button, please don't patronise me with the implication
that I'm not aware of it. 15 years experience of the internet means I'm
well versed in it as well as the "block" facility. However, it's again
missing the point. What may only be one or two extra emails in YOUR inbox
might be adding to hundreds of other unwanted emails in someone else's. To
delete a couple may not be an inconvenience for you, but you have no idea of
other people's situations.
Second, and this is an equally important point as to why some of us object
so strongly to this - there are still many people to have to PAY for
internet access and to download emails before they have the "luxury" of
deleting them. A number of those are also on dial up - image heavy, large
forwards are incredibly slow, and therefore expensive, to download. Whilst
doing so they slow other programmes down and can even crash a computer
(something I'm also well versed in over the years). Many of us continue to
opt for the old style, plain text list posts, rather than the ones with
bells and whistles on, for this very reason. Why should somebody have to
pay money to download what wasn't asked for in the first place?
To those of you who think the objectors are over-reacting - can you really
not find a shred of understanding for why somebody might be irritated by
having to pay for/spend time dealing with all this? How many of you
complain about junk mail through the letterbox? Unsolicited sales calls at
meal times? Mutter under your breath about the company/person behind it
using your property address/phone number without permission? At least
that's not costing you money to throw away/hang up on. So why is this
complaint less valid just because it involves the internet?
Anyway, I suspect that I am speaking to deaf ears on this, and as I said
it'll be the last word from me.
Sian
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