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20 Comments
- Awwzm, on 11/02/2009, -0/+15I've gotten numb to email Spam but text Spam is just infuriating!
- dreamchach, on 11/02/2009, -0/+6I just can't believe that someone thought Spamming was like a good marketing play.
- tgc1, on 11/03/2009, -0/+5There should be a way to block incoming texts from certain numbers. We have the technology. We can build it. Better, faster... more spam resistant.
- vinod1978, on 11/03/2009, -0/+5It annoys me that AT&T charges you 3.99 a month for the privilege of blocking a number. That's $3.99 per # you want blocked. Ridiculously stupid. Make it free or let's include the carriers in these lawsuits.
- UrineEngineer, on 11/03/2009, -0/+3I don't see why number blocking (text and calling) are not legally mandated by the FCC.
- mimigins, on 11/03/2009, -0/+3especially when lots of carriers charge for incoming texts unless you specifically get a text plan.
- RegalBegal, on 11/03/2009, -0/+2This is true.
- jaaames, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1My phone has a text block list. Haven't had a need to use it, but it's there.
- NateKerra, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1I don't like spam ether! And I hate it when I get that on my phone. Though I did find some good coupons for Payless, http://www.bonus.com/Payless_Shoes.htm
See It gets annoying, I don't like text spam. - spyderbc, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1Most people don't understand this. You **WANT** to pay something for every text you receive. Trust me on this. If *YOU* have to pay for an unsolicited message, you can take those bastards that do this sort of thing to court and win very easily.
It's only under those systems where you don't have to pay to receive anything (snail mail, landlines, e-mail) that you receive insane amounts of Spam. - seltaeb4, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1It's a sound marketing strategy.
If you were to print the spam out and line your Payless Shoe Source shoes with it, you'd double their life. - vinod1978, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1I've gotten spam on my cell phone. Even when I replied "STOP" as requested I kept getting it. That's when I found out about AT&T's 'blocking fees'
I assumed he tried as I did. - alrightwtf, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1i totally read that as shoeless paysource...
- vinod1978, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1@nyxerebos:
ummm...no. All advertising is NOT spam.
For example when you watch TV you have given permission to the stations to advertise those products to you in between the content you want to watch. Spam is defined as:
"the recipient has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent. Spam is an issue about consent, not content."
If you watch Hulu - you've given your consent. If you are on Digg, you have given your consent for ads to appear on the right.
However, you have not given your consent to anyone to get a text message advertising to you. You must opt-in for this. When you watch TV, for example, you have opted in to allow ads to be shown to you. - nyxerebos, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1@vinod1978: No I still think it's a matter of degree. Consider doorstep spam, it may be completely unsolicited, or I may not have read the fine print somewhere. Sometimes it supports the postal service like radio ads support the stations. I never opted in to having a billboard put up on my route to work, or for some guy to come up to me pampheteering, or leaving crap under my windshield wiper. There may be a way to opt out of cold calls and faxes, but mostly, nobody asks if its OK first. Intrusive, unwelcome, unsolicited spam, the lot of it.
- yeeaauuh, on 11/03/2009, -2/+2Im still faster than you in my Pro Wings...until the sole separates from the rest of the shoe and starts "talking". Cheap ass shoes.
- Paranor01, on 11/03/2009, -1/+1really? i mean, Really ?
- bigsheldy, on 11/03/2009, -1/+1For some reason I don't think he tried calling "866 746 5923" or texting "END3" like it told him to.
- Goph09, on 11/03/2009, -1/+1Someone in the marketing department is about to be VERY fired
- nyxerebos, on 11/03/2009, -3/+2All marketing is spam to some degree. Its success is determined by how much money it brings in relative to cost, not by whether its welcome. Spam will only end if people stop buying stuff which is advertised that way. Being angry at spammers generally doesn't accomplish much, we should direct our frustrations at the tools who buy from spam, since they might actually stop.
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