>>On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:44:20AM -0800, Roger Morella enlightened us >>thusly >> >> Unfortunately, as frightening as it sounds, what our current email >> system lacks is a layer of bureaucracy to protect it from abuse. Oh >> well... welcome to the real world.
> Declan Moriarty responded as such: > Look Roger, > Asking netizens to support beaurocracratic interference is less likely > to succeed than asking turkeys to vote for Christmas & Thanksgiving, or > asking demons to vote for Armageddon. > The facts are, that whatever the system, people will crack it. Real > concerted attempts were made to prevent breach of copyright in the music > world, with only minor and limited success. And that had the worldwide > support that your suggestions don't yet have. > Whether it would be a better system is anyone's guess. Whether a > beaurocracy is capable of running anything to everyone's satisfacytion > yet remains to be proved. But I see little point in debating this, as it > will never happen. In any case, I agree that this isn't the proper forum for debating the issue. I would like to move this thread to a more applicable news group, rather than continue to "politically spam" this one ;) Any suggestions for where I can find a news group where people debate politically sensitive technical issues? With regards, Roger -- Author: Roger Morella INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
