| hi Marketer, Well, I thought your point is novel. However, your later reply doesn't answer some of the questions raised in Jian Shuo WANG's reply. For example, it is a fact that we commonly accept TV ads, but it doesn't mean that we can generalize that to its cyberworld counterparts. The context, to say the least, has changed and I would say a thorough study of its pros and cons need to be carried out before one can soundly sell this idea. From another point of view, as Jian Shuo WANG has pointed out, the degree of harassment of the two, spam and ads, are not the same. In addition, one has the freedom to switch to other channels when there is an ad in the current channel (note he can still "use" his tv), but do you have such a choice when somebody else spams your primary email account (you cannot switch it for many reasons) or NET SEND messages to your computer? In a word, i think such spamming in the cyber world is not ethical, although one might make a large amount of money from it. |
Net Send - Yet Another Type of Spam