Havent gotten one of these myself but have been hearing a lot of complaints. Cell phone spam. Yes that beautiful thing called spam we see in our email boxes has made its way on to cell phones. What is funny to see is people bitching about the costs involved with receiving spam as if it's a new thing. There are people on dial-up internet connections everywhere who pay for the amount of time they can stay connected. What happens when they get spam email? It costs them time to download that email, which equates to costing them money.
"It's absolutely unacceptable to be involved in advertising where you pass the cost onto the consumer," said Rodney Joffe, head of the anti-spam group Whitehat. "When it comes to cell phones, it costs them nothing to send it but costs anyone with a cell phone money. The recipient ends up paying."
Spam sucks. I dont mind advertisements... when I'm getting something like watching a TV show or viewing a website that I enjoy, but unsolicited crap showing up in the inbox... that blows.
Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.
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