Re: US antispam bill is death to anonymity

2003-11-24 Thread John Gilmore
No, it only makes it illegal to use false or misleading information to send commercial e-mail. That's a rather important distinction. So, I get non-commercial emails all the time, from topica mailing lists and from people forwarding New York Times articles and such. They come with embedded

Re: US antispam bill is death to anonymity

2003-11-24 Thread Dan Geer
The natural consequence of zero-cost (free) speech is to make freedom from speech (privacy) unquenchably attractive. If you would preserve anonymity, you must raise the costs of those who will not shut up. We technocrats have had years to do something and we have not; the ball is now in other

Re: US antispam bill is death to anonymity

2003-11-23 Thread Florian Weimer
John Gilmore wrote: This bill makes it a crime to use any false or misleading information in a domain name or email account application, and then send an email. That would make a large fraction of hotmail users instant criminals. Why? Can't you register a domain using a proxy? I think this

Re: US antispam bill is death to anonymity

2003-11-23 Thread John R. Levine
This bill makes it a crime to use any false or misleading information in a domain name or email account application, and then send an email. No, it only makes it illegal to use false or misleading information to send commercial e-mail. That's a rather important distinction. Anonymous

US antispam bill is death to anonymity

2003-11-22 Thread John Gilmore
This bill makes it a crime to use any false or misleading information in a domain name or email account application, and then send an email. That would make a large fraction of hotmail users instant criminals. It also makes it a crime to remove or alter information in message headers in ways that