-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 January 2002 03:30, you wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:54:49 -0800 > > "Josh" <josh at mercuryfs.net> wrote: > > Is spam free speech? > > I think everybody wants to answer NO, but i think it is free speech.
I don't mind spam (or any other kind of advertising) provided I have a way of filterting it out. A good idea might be to require all unsolicited bulk e-mail to include an "X-Advertising" (or something similar) in the e-mail headers, and give a $100 fine (payed to the people who received the spam) for those that don't. That'll make it really easy to write e-mail clients (or even e-mail servers) that can filter that out. Then put a nice little button on your e-mail client that says "report this message for spam" so when there is a message that isn't including the header, you can quickly send it off somewhere so the lawyers can run rabid on the sender. The only problem I see with this is spammers setting up servers in a country without such a law. I wouldn't consider spam "trespassing" or compare it to facisim. I do consider it trespassing when certain websites add themselves to your bookmarks or make themselves your homepage without even asking (though I suspect such things only work in IE). That is /my/ computer you're altering and I don't accept people who alter /my/ stuff without asking. - -- Timm Murray - ----------- This message has been encoded ROT26. Decoding is punishable by death under the DMCA. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwyDqAACgkQqpueKcacfLQbXwCdFbuX96nmw8WW7L5APcxDbq/P my4AoICnFNzyQy9RzGRZxWSolpGjCIyq =kJ5w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
