Scott Duncan
Your question is a fallacy. What did they do BEFORE email? They had the right to spam you over the phone/fax, until people people pointed out the COSTS. Business cried "WON"T SOMEONE THINK OF THE PROFITS"! We'll starve, if we can't spam! I run mail servers for OVER 100 domains! I HAVE TO PAY THE BANDWIDTH COSTS OF SPAM. ...and you don't really know what the word "fascist" means if you lament the "harm' to BUSINESS in LITERALLY THE NEXT SENTENCE.