Re: A Philippine Spammer's Creed - sad, really

What this person is pointng out, quite obviously, is that though "spamming", as it has come to be called, is illegal in the USA, it is not illegal where she lives simply because her government has yet to address it. If that's true, then she's not "rationalizing" - but simply pointing out a fact of life.

Of course, before spamming became illegal here in the land of the free, it was used liberally by those who began building their fortunes on the internet. You know, the folks now known as "gurus". The folks who will sell you books, tapes and courses on how you, too, can get rich in cyberspace. Oh, except for one thing: ya can't do what they did to get your "foot in the door."

So, ya see, there was a time when "spamming", as we call it, was not against the law. And was used on the internet as "junk mail" was and is used in the actual world.

Jim G

> Kristina Eden De Guzman harvested a colleague's address, used a URL
> shortener to disguise the location of her "mother ship" MLM
> opportunity in her spam, but still managed to get busted because the MLM
> operator really hates spammers costing him his hosting.

> When confronted, she wrote this marvelous rationalization for Internet
> abuse, which seems to be OK in her eyes as long as it's justifiable by
> poverty or desperation or lack of alternatives. Sorry, Kristina. Find a
> new way. Spam is not the answer.

> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:27:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Kristina Eden De Guzman
> To: wcarton@flash.net

> We hav no argument at all regarding what is a spammer, who is the
> spammer or
> is im a spammer...
> We do not need to make any argument on a spamming as an ethical and
> moral violation of any kind of higher law, as you stated since im
> already an unethical person as you judged.

> Well, here in my country, spamming is not yet be on focus on some member
> of
> the cabinet, i mean, government cabinet are very slow on making any kind
> of laws or constitution since they only thinking their selves and their
> party. they have no unity at all, were people in my country are
> struggling poverty and hoping that someday, they will unite for the seek
> of this country.The political situation is worst since in the time of
> dictator marcos. Until now, political situation is struggling and the
> peope are very affected and became also in struggle, but not by
> political, but in poverty.

> Some(but not all) of my countrymen are doing their own best of what they
> can give to their kids future and they do not think anymore of what the
> government benifits can be take.
> Some(but not all) are working in foreign land and other are became
> slave, doing smallbusiness online and offline. Others are engage in
> criminal activities. Others are marrying to foreigner, specially to the
> american, just to go out and escape to poverty which i also own now.

> Your lucky Bill, because your country have the best political arsenal
> and in united, in addition that you have a wonderful president in the
> form of Prez George Bush jr.

> Some people are thinking that spamming is done by machine and not by
> human, even those spammers are of how many times they are in sleepless
> night.

> They(complainant) are thinking that spammer is a criminal, well, that's
> true, but not all, because it depend their every reasons. They thinking
> of that, because they are rich complainant and they did not experience
> once or feel what poverty is it.

> Well Bill, As me as a spammer, counted as a "criminal" by your
> understanding,
> well, i have no regret but accept that i am a criminal.

> A criminal that for how many times had been a victim also of spamming
> from people from the other countries, specially from the americans.
> American(but not all) are always spam me, advertising their mlm products
> and to have a new car,
> a new house, a financial freedom term and a lot more if i join them.

> But eversince, i did not feel jealous to those americans/others who
> advertise "new car" and eversince, i never put in my mind to
> take any
> first step of complaint, since they did not forcing me to join their mlm
> networking. And i consedered that, when they spam me, is because of
> their kids futures and not of a "new sport car".

> And i did not like that in a very small issue, i turn it big and hot.

> Eversince, i never put in my mind to make any first step of compliant,
> just because of a very small issue. I never do any complain, coz i did
> not like that i grab the bread of the kids hands and turn it into the
> trush.

> I never do any complain, especially to asian people(for instant, the
> Philippines) coz i did not know, that maybe, they do thier own best just
> to make money online for the seek of their childs ambition to became a
> nurse someday, work and became a slave in american soil. (like me, as a
> mother that have a ambitious child).

> And as a human(consedered machine/criminal by complainer, specially by
> you), i did not want also to hurt someone just because of a very small
> issue, coz in my own, im feel that im a true human being. As Jesus said
> and died a few hours ago, "Father, forgive them", is because of
> a VERY
> SMALL issue of cruxification.

> I know spamming is an unethical one as you considered and as by your
> kind of higher laws.

> So by your kind of higher law, AS your first letter/email that sounds
> like "Adding insult to injury", well in my OWN HUMAN LAW, i put
> and
> count you that YOU ARE IN A RIGHT TIME IN A RIGHT PLACE.

> Anyway bill, just understand it carefully, since some words in my email
> is a wrong grammar.(Well, im not an english woman).