At 05:09 PM 3/13/01, you wrote:
>It appears to me all these "by way of"s are thinly disguised advertisements
>for the company whose name is appended at the end---------
>If it smells like SPAM.....................


The advertisements you are referring to in the emails are added 
automatically by the various servers that the messages flow through.

I moved last fall from South Carolina to Colorado.  Since the move I have 
been temporarily using free email services such as netzero.com, juno.com, 
and bluelight.com to send email.  These free services add advertisements to 
all email sent through their servers.  I can't stop that until I get 
resettled and signup with a paid Internet Service Provider again.

Also, the Rootsweb email servers add advertisements to all the Forum 
email.  I have the power to turn those off, but I choose not to because 
Rootsweb needs the revenue they get from these advertisements.  Since 
Rootsweb provides us with this free service, I choose to help them make 
some money to pay the bills.

To be considered Spam an email message has to be "unsolicited" email.  The 
Forum email is solicited by each subscribe by the act of 
subscribing.  Therefore, Forum email cannot be considered as Spam 
email.  Each subscriber has the power to stop the messages by unsubscribing.

Steven J. Coker
Forum Manager
[email protected]


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